Survivor
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Significance of reverse page numbers
Wan Ni
Oct 21, 2015 08:58PM
In the WW Norton paperback edition, the page numbers are reversed, i.e. the story starts on page 289 and the numbers descend to 1. Is it plainly referring to plane descent? What other significance does it hold?
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The reason is for the "countdown", which could be related to the plane's slow descent as fuel runs out, or the story itself, leading up to the climax.
I think Derek is correct about the countdown to the plane going down. However, I would take it a step further and guess that it is a hint that the end is really the beginning. Or at least, that it is a beginning in that it is the point at which the protagonist escapes all the ghosts of his past and starts to truly live. The author has stated that he does actually live. The protagonist recorded the last bit of his confession on a tape recorder, then left that in the cockpit and jumped out of the plane with a parachute and landed right next to the girl (love interest - I forgot her name), and they drove off and lived happily ever after or some such continuation.
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