The Book of Extremities is a unique piece of writing: a dark, haunting tale that will make you question the nature of fiction. It is a sequence of numbered texts, conceived and written in the house of a priest without a name, in the tiny hamlet of G ay, forty minutes south of La Rochelle, in France. It purports to be a collection of fragments of the priest's writing - a set of anguished emotional outpourings - each one written on a separate piece...