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The Book That Read Me - Six Surreal Encounters
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.95
ISBN13: 9781805880967
Publisher: Michael Terence Publishing
Published: Sep 8 2025
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Book That Read Me by Anthony Maccini is a mind bending fusion of psychological thriller, surreal metafiction, and philosophical sci fi. Six extraordinary stories push reality to breaking point, exploring fractured identity, the illusion of free will, and the fragile boundary between the real and the imagined.
In Zigzag, a man's life is rewritten by a sinister book-and a shadowy double who wants to erase him.
The Doubles plunges into a claustrophobic city where everyone hides behind coats and hats, and individuality dissolves in the crowd.
In The Lottery Ticket, a destitute soul wins 200 million, revealing how society values wealth above humanity.
Echoes follows a grieving bureaucrat haunted by ghostly visions of himself, as love and escape clash with the possibility of fate.
The Interview delivers a ferocious attack on Britain's welfare system, exposing how institutions dehumanise and criminalise the vulnerable.
And in The Zoo, time bends cruelly, trapping strangers across centuries in a cosmic experiment run by higher powers.
With shades of Kafka, Orwell, and Philip K. Dick, Maccini blends dystopia, magical realism, and existential dread into a relentless exploration of what it means to be human in an indifferent universe. Each tale is a mirror-sometimes cracked, sometimes clear-reflecting the self you recognise and the stranger you fear you might become.
Dazzling, disturbing, and darkly thought provoking, The Book That Read Me will change the way you think about reality-if reality is even real at all.
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