Only Revolutions

A Novel

384 pages

English language

Published Sept. 12, 2006 by Pantheon.

ISBN:
978-0-375-42176-1
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Sam: They were with us before Romeo & Juliet. And long after too. Because they’re forever around. Or so both claim, carolling gleefully:

We’re allways sixteen.

Sam & Hailey, powered by an ever-rotating fleet of cars, from Model T to Lincoln Continental, career from the Civil War to the Cold War, barrelling down through the Appalachians, up the Mississippi River, across the Badlands, finally cutting a nation in half as they try to outrace History itself.

By turns beguiling and gripping, finally worldwrecking, Only Revolutions is unlike anything ever published before, a remarkable feat of heart and intellect, moving us with the journey of two kids, perpetually of summer, perpetually sixteen, who give up everything except each other.

Hailey: They were with us before Tristan & Isolde. And long after too. Because they’re forever around. Or so both claim, gleefully carolling:

We’re allways sixteen.

Hailey & Sam, powered by an …

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a wheel within a wheel

The kind of book one may like, but will not necessarily recommend. It is a weird and demanding book, even for someone who has already read Danielewski's prose. However, the more I read it the more I enjoyed it as I got into the tempo of Sam and Hailey. Endlessly teenagers, endlessly in love. Beware, the timeline snippets inside the books, they a welcome reminder of highschool history lessons, but the typesize makes them a pain to read.

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