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Woman's World

When you see a ransom note cut out from newspaper clippings, immediately you're struck by the menacing feeling associated. Is it from the words? The style? or the trope itself? The visual is nonetheless distinct – and a similar look, although non-menacing, is shared by Graham Rawle’s novel Woman’s World. The entire 400-page novel consists of cut-out words taken from years worth of magazines.
 
Rawle’s process for the novel was to first write the plot in his own words, then painstakingly go through the magazines to find words to replace his own. As a result many phrases are descriptive in only a way that a woman’s magazine from the sixties could be. Many of these phrases come from advertisements, giving not only the vocabulary a flourish but the imagery of the text as well.
            The fonts, sizes, and even images included once related to a specific product now exist in a stylistic where the cues once made to make the reader think of starched laundry and a clean house now impact the character epitomizing an impeccable modern woman.

            Even if perhaps the slight differences are unintentional, it’s hard to
S E P A R A T E the visual from what it invokes in

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