Straight to the Multiplex
Tom McCarthy: Steven Hall’s ‘The Raw Shark Texts’, 1 November 2007
The Raw Shark Texts
by Steven Hall.
Canongate, 368 pp., £12.99, March 2007,978 1 84195 902 3 Show More
by Steven Hall.
Canongate, 368 pp., £12.99, March 2007,
“... Six years ago, at the First Committee Meeting of the International Necronautical Society, an organisation set up to explore ‘the cultural parameters of death’ – why not? – the INS’s Chief Obituary Reviewer (my sister Melissa) announced that she would be conducting a study of surfers, whom she ‘suspected were onto something’. Six months later, I and other INS committee members cross-examined her about her findings in an art gallery that had been adapted to look and function like a sinister Hearings Camera: microphones, stenographers, press area – that sort of thing ... ”