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Violence
Some
Some violence; time-travel/mind-travel encounters with historical dangers
Language
Some
Adult language in Thomas's literary register
Sexual Content
A lot
Explicit sexual content in the Troposphere sequences
Substance Use
Barely any
Some drug use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The philosophical and psychological complexity of Thomas's ideas about consciousness and reality creates genuine intellectual disorientation; the novel demands an active reader
What this book is about
Scarlett Thomas's novel follows Ariel Manto, a literature student who finds a copy of the supposedly cursed Victorian novel The End of Mr. Y and discovers it contains a formula for entering the Troposphere — a space inside human minds. Thomas writes literary fiction that plays seriously with ideas about consciousness, language, and reality. The content is adult throughout: explicit sexual encounters in the Troposphere, violence, and intense philosophical content. For adult readers of experimental literary fiction.
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Explicit sexual content in key sequences
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