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Rasmus by PJ Vanston (Matador, £8.99)
“ART may imitate life but life imitates TV.” So opines Rasmus Karn in one of his many direct quotations that intersperse the third-person narrative in PJ Vanston’s engrossingly gross novel.
Arising from seemingly nowhere, the founder of reality channel X-TV acts like a modern prophet in holding a mirror up to the world to show it for what it is and foretelling its possible future.
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