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In The Shade is a Lovian literary novel by Percival E. Galahad, to be published in 2011. The novel is Galahad's first epistolary or diary novel. It narrates the life of teenager Jonathan Tagore through diary entries.

Plot
Jonathan Tagore is a twenty-year-old British student at Oxford University, born in a immigrant Bengali family. His life on campus in described in full detail. It is remarkably patterned and lacking social interaction and concrete and effective activities. Jonathan spends his days downloading old-timies and Renaissance music, searching the web for internet pornography, compiling various lists, and writing in his diary. In the diary, called "Bobby McGee" after the popular Janis Joplin song for an unknown reason, Jonathan makes hyper-detailed notes of all his activities, including movies he watched, books he read, articles he reviewed, sites he visited, brands of soda he drank, etc. It is obvious he lives a secluded life that is considered bizarre or "sick" by fellow students. In the first part of the book, compromising six months and two days, Jonathan never mentions his family or relatives, and only refers to classmates in an objectifying manner.

Writing in process.