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"I've always been interested in fashion, but I suppose my English background means that plays out on a conservative level," he says. In the 1990s, Lewis was regularly listed on The Age's "Best Dressed" list for his neo classic jigsaws of cutting edge European and Japanese labels. "I still buy a lot of Japanese, but I also wear Rick Owens, Chronicles of Never, custom shoes by Andrew McDonald ." They're all unarguably Arctic cool niche brands, but high on quality, low on overt visual impact. "Some people dress for attention, a louder statement, others for those quieter points of difference; the play of textures, fabrics, colours, the twists and turns, the gorgeous simplicity of a beautiful thing."

The winner moves on to the semifinals, for a matchup, potentially, against Nyquist.

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The first chapter is heavy slogging, as our narrator, Agu, is but a child and he sees things as a child would: Thoughts come to him all at once, and sentences run on and on, packed full of feelings and at times hard to read ("I am opening my eye and there is light all around me coming into the dark through hole in the roof, crossing like net above my body." But once you become accustomed to Agu's rapidfire thought patterns, his story is at once hypnotizing and horrifying. Kidnapped from his innocent family, the boy must watch killings and kill innocents himself, or else his own life will end, on a bloody West African road far from home.