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The End of Endings

Steven Hall

‘Entropy is what drives time forwards, and only forwards.’

Autumn
September – November 2014

Fiction
Granta 123
16th April 2013
Fiction
Granta 123
16th April 2013

Steven Hall

Born in Derbyshire, Steven Hall’s first novel, The Raw Shark Texts, won the Borders Original Voices Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, and has been translated into twenty-nine languages. ‘Spring’ and ‘Autumn’, in the issue, are excerpts from his upcoming second novel, The End of Endings.

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