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I LOVE THIS SO MUCH.
Each chapter follows part of the life of a reporter who writes obituaries for a paper in Brazil. At the end of each chapter, the writer dies, in a different way. The chapter titles are numbers, for the age the writer is when he dies this time. There is poetry to this. It makes me think of the many mindtrip movies that I love so much, but somehow, for me, having the story on a printed page gave more weight and, yeah, poetry to the tale. We get to know lovers, his best friend, ...more
Each chapter follows part of the life of a reporter who writes obituaries for a paper in Brazil. At the end of each chapter, the writer dies, in a different way. The chapter titles are numbers, for the age the writer is when he dies this time. There is poetry to this. It makes me think of the many mindtrip movies that I love so much, but somehow, for me, having the story on a printed page gave more weight and, yeah, poetry to the tale. We get to know lovers, his best friend, ...more
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