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|title=The Currency of Paper

|sort=Currency of Paper

|reviewer=Sue Magee

|genre=Literary Fiction

|rating=4.5

|buy=Yes

|pages=318

|publisher=Dalkey Archive Press

|isbn=978-1564788573

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Maximilian Sacheverell Hollingsworth was - as the name might suggest - of aristocratic birth, but had broken off all contact with his family and in consequence found himself labouring for forty hours a week in a printing works in Dagenham. He came upon the idea of planning out his entire life and this he did in the course of a single afternoon whilst enjoying a little illicit sick leave in a pub in Bloomsbury. He would first become a counterfeiter - on a massive scale - and then a sculptor, filmmaker, collector of artefacts, sound artist and mystic. Circumstances would also turn him into a recluse, except on certain well-ordered occasions, most of which would occur - somewhat to his initial surprise - later in his life.

The closest we've come recently to ''surreal'' is [[Apocalypse Now Now by Charlie Human]]. It's not as good as ''The Currency of Paper''.

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