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About Mark Z. Danielewski
See more books from this AuthorBut there’s a real story here, and a persuasive sense that the couple’s wild ride is a kind of creation myth that mirrors, as it presumes to explain, America’s unruly energies—as Sam and Hailey experience Hailey’s brief dalliance with a macho avatar of military, militant power (“The Creep”), an O...
| Read Full Review of Only Revolutions: A NovelThe poems exult at first in frenzied interlocking Seussian sonorities, as when Sam and Hailey flee "through clusters of Clinchers / diving for Dingers, Whangdoodle / Hoofers slumming for lessons, Parlor / Bolsheviks working their Trotzkies, / Drugstore Cowboys skirting & / shirking their Shebas",...
Sep 30 2006 | Read Full Review of Only Revolutions: A NovelOnly Revolutions by Mark Z Danielewski Doubleday £20, pp360 While doggedly working through Mark Z Danielewski's Only Revolutions, I was constantly reminded of other similarly 'difficult' works, whose invention is such that they require decoding rather than reading, whose obsessive brilliance is o...
Sep 24 2006 | Read Full Review of Only Revolutions: A NovelEach gets 180 words per page, but in type that gets smaller as they get closer to their ends (Glas was more haphazard), so they each gets exactly half a page only at the midway point of the book: page 180—or half of a revolution of 360 degrees.
Aug 28 2006 | Read Full Review of Only Revolutions: A NovelAs you turn pages and make your way through the tale, these circles revolve around one another, just as Sam and Hailey revolve around each other, just as their stories revolve around each other's, just as the reader is brought in and encircled by their tale.
Jan 13 2011 | Read Full Review of Only Revolutions: A NovelAlthough Only Revolutions contains a story of sorts—a road narrative told through the Joycean monologues of Sam and Hailey, "Allmighty sixteen and freeeeee"—the book’s real power comes from its design: the characters’ ruminations start at opposite ends of the book and work their way toward the mi...
Aug 21 2007 | Read Full Review of Only Revolutions: A NovelAn aggregated and normalized score based on 74 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes
Rated the book as 5 out of 5