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Rip it Up

• Kou Machida • ISBN 9781965874141

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Rip it Up

• Kou Machida • ISBN-13 9781965874141

ISBN-10 Not provided • 2025

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ISBN 9781965874141 • Completeness 48

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Inpatient Press, 2021. Softcover, 140pp., 4 x 5.8 inches New Rip It Up is the first ever English translation of Kou Machida's award-winning novel, an undertaking over five years in the making and the inaugural title of Inpatient Press's new translation imprint Mercurial Editions. Set in a kaleidoscopic hyperreal Japan circa Y2K, Rip It Up catalogues the misdeeds and misgivings of a down-and-out wannabe debonair who e

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Publisher: Kou Machida
2025
Pages: 152

Catalog notes

Contributor: jealousy at his friend's success and despondency of his own creative (and moral) bankruptcy

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Category: Contemporary FictionCategory: Existentialist FictionCategory: Japanese LiteratureCategory: Literary TranslationCategory: Modern Japanese ProseCategory: New LiteratureCategory: Inpatient PressCategory: Mercurial Editions

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