Only Revolutions

The correct title of this book is Only Revolutions. It appears incorrectly here because of technical restrictions.


Only Revolutions is an American road novel by writer Mark Z. Danielewski. It was released in the United States on 12 September 2006. It was nominated for the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction.
The story alternates between two different narratives: Sam and Hailey, and Hailey and Sam, wild and wayward teenagers who never grow old. With an evolving stable of cars, the teenagers move through various places and moments in time as they try to outrace History.

Only Revolutions is printed in such a way that both covers appear to be the front of the book. The side with the green cover is the story as told by Sam, and the side with the gold cover is the story as told by Hailey. Every page contains upside-down text in the bottom margin, which is actually later pages of the opposite volume. For example, the first page of Hailey's story contains the last several lines of Sam's story, apparently upside down. When you reach that page while reading Sam's story, those lines will appear to be the only right-side-up text on the page. (Note: The publisher recommends the reading of eight pages from one story, then the other, and so on.)

In addition, every page contains a sidebar with a date and a list of world-events that happened between that date, and the one which appears on the next page. Dates in Sam's story run from Nov 22 1863 to Nov 22 1963, while dates in Hailey's story run from Nov 22 1963 to Jan 19 2063.