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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled Splitting about SPLITTING...why, Joyce, William with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary.
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conversations.value: "With the author's world-heavyweight-champion novel, SPLITTING...why not just let yourself be knocked out by the phenomenal language and stimulating skylarking... In this hallucinatory yet grounded tale, a nameless woman -- sometimes embodied, sometimes not -- narrates the struggle of a band of desperate yet funky individualist dreamers plotting to escape the mind-domination of a race of potassium-based aliens who have long enslaved humanity. Our narrator employs a richly allusive and punning style, half Joyce, half William Burroughs... SPLITTING stands both as hypnagogic bible and its own decommissioning anti-text." -- Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's Magazine