Mark Saxer
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Language
English
Description
A forensic psychologist who has been studying false confessors disappears, and each of his case studies steps forward to claim responsibility for the abduction. The Ministry of Irony, an ironic forecasting service, becomes involved in the case when it is revealed that one of its newest clients is also one of the missing doctor's patients. The novel's narrator, a low-level clerk at the Ministry, ignores the advice of his employer, who maintains that...
2) The Big Mark
Author
Language
English
Description
The Big Mark rides the rails in early 20th century America, lying in wait for the con men traveling alongside him. Portraying himself as a moneyed rube, he plays the short con against the long con and makes off with the money his would-be fleecers dangle in front of him before they realize they've been had.He makes a living in this manner for years, until he is eventually caught out following a failed ploy. Given one hundred days to pay back the hundred...
Author
Language
English
Description
One man moves into a single-room home, only to uncover a labyrinth of metaphor. Another possesses a cryonic chamber which enables his wife to adopt a vacationing approach towards existence. A third is troubled by his brother's attempts to discern the patterns of a dead language from out of a Ouija board's gibberish. A fourth attempts to write his own biography, ignoring his own perspective and relying solely on the testimonies of second and third-party...