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THE SHOCK OF THE FALL is an extraordinary portrait of one man's journey through the spinning vortex that is mental illness. It is a brave and groundbreaking novel from one of the most exciting new voices in fiction.
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Contemporary, earnest, spare and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Nathan Filer
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 310
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, Harpercollins, Charnwood
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007491452
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