The Raw Shark Texts

The Raw Shark Texts is the debut novel by British author Steven Hall, released in 2007. The book was released by Canongate Books in the US and the UK and published by HarperCollins in Canada. The title is a play on "Rorschach Tests", which are inkblot tests. The novel is a work of Meta-fiction which uses Concrete poetry, linguistic jokes and cultural references. It is the story of an amnesiac re-discovering his past life through a surreal collection of clues he has left himself while evading a steampunk villain and the shark of the title.

The Raw Shark Texts
AuthorSteven Hall
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary fiction
PublisherCanongate, HarperCollins
Publication date
2007
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages428 (first edition, hardback)
ISBN978-0-00-200840-2 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC81601270
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