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Wow. A perfect book: accessible, clever, beautifully written, evocative, and quietly profound.

You were the sort of man I thought I could deal with quite easily until you lost your memory. That didn't work out right. You got so many illusions of grandeur, heroism, self-sacrifice, patriotism.....

This wasn't an exciting adventure, and he wasn't a hero, and it was even possible that this was not a tragedy. Anna's brother is sleeping. Out of hearing. He sleeps so sound. That's economy too. As deep and as little of it....

Book Four: The Whole Man

Arthur withholding the phone number so he can be the hero in his own adventure story and show off to Anna. Wrong numbers all, until....

Jones's belongings buried on the island. Rowe was growing up; every hour was bringing him closer to hailing distance of his real age. The simple heroics of childhood blurring and receding.

Damn, this is good

Book Three: Bits and Pieces

I must stand up - as though there were some healing virtue in remaining on his feet as his brain reels with the horror if returning life.

Consummate writing as Digby/Arthur breaks out into "the Sick Bay".