Perspectives
The short story “Blink and You Miss It” by Alex Garland may become more accessible after putting the text into perspective, by connecting it to literary period and similar works.
Literary period
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Works in the same genre
For other Postmodernist work, we recommend that you also read “Baglady” by A. S. Byatt (Flux, pp. 9) which follows the wife of a company director on a business trip in an Eastern country together with the wives of other directors as they visit a mall. The woman feels out of place and gets lost and robbed until a police officer from the mall takes her for a homeless person. The story is at the boundary between dream and reality, leaving readers to wonder about it.
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Works with the same theme
For the theme of the effects of drugs use, we encourage you to also read the short story “A Shot in the Light” by Lion Goodman (Texting – 1st Year Fiction, pp. 112).
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