Picnic Comma Lightning av Laurence Scott

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<p><b><u>**A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**</u></b><br><b><br>''Laurence Scott ¿ writes beautifully about the experience of reality in the digital age, and about how grief changes our perceptions ¿ I¿m besotted with Scott¿s writing.'' Derren Brown, <i>i paper</i><br></b><br><b>''Clever, funny and deeply moving... an engaging and thought-provoking journey through the fakery of modern life.''</b><i>Mail on Sunday</i><br><br><b>''A stylish, playful exploration of what digital life is doing to the way we find meaning in the world.'' </b><i>Guardian</i>, ''Book of the Week''<br><i>________________________</i><br> In Vladimir Nabokov''s <i>Lolita</i>, the narrator offers a memorably brief account of his mother¿s death: ''picnic, lightning''. <i>Picnic Comma Lightning </i>similarly opens with the death of Laurence Scott''s parents, and the definitive ending of their deaths raises for him one fundamental question: how much of what we live through is truly real?<br><br> With humour and insight,