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A Scream of Toys
Alan Sillitoe
‘Edie looked a long time at blue sky in a pool of water after rain before dipping her finger down for a taste.’
Alice fell
Emma Tennant
‘Agony belonged to night and would take advantage of the union, increase the whirligig of pain.’
Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban
‘Ther leader he wer a big black and red spottit dog he come forit a littl like he ben going to make a speach or some thing’.
The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H.
George Steiner
‘At moments Hitler’s head brushed against Gideon’s cheek like a clump of wet leaves.’
B-ABEL
Jeremy Lane
‘Partial, our protagonist, to the palatal; prone, too, to the plosive; and apt, you’ve heard, to alliterate.’
Lucky Pierre and the Coldwater Flat
Robert Coover
‘Projections run riot, mirrors tip and weave, there’s a blur of images like film jumping out of its sprockets.’
Bachelor Life
M.J. Fitzgerald
‘At nine o’clock the man leaves the flat dressed in an elegant salmon-pink dress’.
Sweet Truth
Walter Abish
‘I believe in the harmony of my friendship to Gisela rather than in the binding force that the institution of marriage is said to represent.’
The Universal Fears
John Hawkes
‘He was most seriously injured, as it turned out, not in the groin or flanks or belly, but in the head.’
