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Scope and Contents This "is an original and intriguing whodunnit which lays bare the dark side of suburbia and is a testament to Grahm Rawle's extravagant and eccentric talent." The author uses typed pages and manipulated photographs in this cut-up and collaged novel. Amazon.com review: "Michael Whittingham is a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor in England who has decided to take up amateur photography. The instructor has suggested that each student "keep a record of exposure times, shutter speeds and aperture settings. In this way we can learn from our mistakes." But as Michael reveals himself through typed entries in his diary over a 2-week period between Thanksgiving and Christmas, we see an unsavory, egotistical, socially clueless man who mentally justifies his own creepy behavior -- lewdness, peeping in windows, petty thefts, scams for lost-and-found items in classified ads. (Who doesn't know and wonder about people like this, what their internal processes are like?) An ongoing theme is the...

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This book depicts picture poems (as reproduced collages) with a caption containing a single word with the an absent consonant thereby turning the poem and picture into a spoof. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book is a work of fiction in which all the texts and illustrations are clipped from women's magazines from the 1960's. It resembles the cut-up stories made by William Burroughs except that the flow is deliberate rather than random. Graham Rawle describes the making of the book in an afterward. "I started writing this book in the usual way. When I had completed a rough draft, I then searched through hundreds of women's magazines, cutting out anything that seemed relevant to the scenes I'd written - sentences and phrases that, when joined together, could be rearranged to approximate what I wanted to say. These cuttings were then filed and from them I began to reassemble my story. Little by little, my original words were discarded and replaced by those I'd bound. Once the transition was complete, I could start pasting up the pages as artwork. The method was primitive: scissors and glue. Apart from a little tweaking here and there to enlarge very small type to a readable size,...

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This is one of the strangest books you will ever encounter: a surreal excursion into the lost world of picture puzzles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.