"Yes, maybe it's time to move on. Spare some our hurt before the World retakes what we always elude when we run."
Only Revolutions (2006) by Mark Z. Danielewski, of House of Leaves fame, follows two parallel narratives spun by sixteen year olds Sam and Hailey. Immortal, they go on a roadtrip across America spanning two hundred years filled with adventure, romance and heartbreaking moments.
This book provides examples of:
- Double-Sided Book: A tricky palindrome of a novel, you can start it from either cover.
- Narrative Poem: Quasi-example. It reads similar to a poem, with a significant amount of rhyming, but it has no meter or joining characteristic, making it fit in the blurry area between a typical novel and a narrative poem.
- Painting the Medium:
- The letter "o" and certain words are always typed in green or gold, with the numeral zero being treated as another letter "o". Also, THE CREEP and all instances of the word creep are always in purple.
- The book is the same stories told from 2 slightly different perspectives and the synopsis on the dust cover does the same.
- Unreliable Narrator: Both of them. The same story is woven, but Sam and Hailey's accounts differ, often showing themselves in a sympathetic light.