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The tesseract, by alex garland, is a strange book, because it takes 4 sets of characters an englishman in manila, the local heavy that hes due to meet, 2 street kids, and a family and watches what happens in the run up to and after the time when these 4 groups collide. As karen sleeps through the next seventeen years, richard and their circle of friends reside in an. The coma is a real masterpiece, and like the tesseract goes far beyond the budding promise of the beach to show a genuine talent at work. Alex garland the beach read and download epub, pdf, fb2, mobi. Though british author garland started out writing cinematically inspired, densely layered backpacker fiction like the beach 1997 and the tesseract 1999, his newest goes for something more terse, more abstract, and, ultimately, less interesting.
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