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John Updike’s The Centaur,
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
a furry, flattened body with a red/gray ejaculation of blood and brains having burst from his little exploded head. To Kugel, chipmunks looked as if they’d died of a good idea;
Shalom Auslander • Hope: A Tragedy
His very existence was twinned: there was who he was at work and who he was outside of it; there was who he was then and who he had been; there was who he was in court and who he had been in the car, so alone with himself that I had been frightened.
Hanya Yanagihara • A Little Life: A Novel
John Dies at the End by David Wong
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... See moreWhat formed in Cyrus's mind was a blunt and inarticulable plea to be done, for a reprieve from navigating what had become to him an unnavigable world, to not have to spend the next decade or decades unraveling what it all meant, had meant, would mean. The anger he felt at his mother. The vanished. The abandoner. But, also, the pride he felt for her
Absconded
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Book 3 (2Q84 2)
In his memoir Self-Consciousness, John Updike wrote that he was offering his as “a specimen life, representative in its odd uniqueness of all the oddly unique lives in this world.”