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The Revisionist

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The title character of The Revisionist conducts covert surveillance ona city whose inhabitants are subject to uncanny transformations as a result of catastrophicweather, political corruption, invasive technologies and environmentaldegradation. Hired to ‘revise’ the facts, the revisionist’sperceptions in turn become detached and distorted — unreliable yet allthe same, revealing. This civil scientist of a narrator sardonicallyobserves a distressed landscape inhabited by mutant children, aseeing-eye dog, a centenarian with iguanas and constellations beneathher dress, brooding frigate birds, insurance love clones, a terroristcurator, a private investigator, and a little girl who’s discoveredthe world’s largest conch.

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