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1 „… if you remove the initial gut response from reading – the delight or excitement or simply
the enjoyment of being told a story – and try to concentrate on the meaning or the shape or
the “message” first, you might as well give up, it‘s too much like all work and no play“, Atwood,
Margaret, Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, Toronto: McClelland and
Stewart, 2004 (bls. 3).
2 Patch, Nick, Vice News, 8. ágúst 2018, Iain Reid is Canada’s Next Big Author: https://www.vice.
com/en_ca/article/594kvn/iainreidiscanadasnextbigauthor.
3 One Bird‘s Choice: A Year in the Life of an Over-Educated, Underemployed Twentysomething
Who Moves Back Home (2010), The Truth About Luck: What I Learned on my Road Trip with
Grandma (2013).
4 Patch, Nick, op. cit.
5 Werheimer, Linda, NPR, 12. júní 2016, In Debut Thriller, Iain Reid Delivers Shivers Without
Reader Knowing Why: https://www.npr.org/2016/06/12/481750699/indebutthrillernovel
iainreiddeliversshiverswithoutreaderknowingwhy.
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