Diary of an Oxygen Thief
A 2006 confessional novel published anonymously in Amsterdam, narrated by an advertising man who recounts cruelty and comeuppance. Its author has remained anonymous.
- Original byline
- Anonymous
- Published
- 2006
- Form
- Novels
- Authorship
- Deliberately anonymous
- Reason for anonymity
- Unrecorded
- Copyright
- In copyright
- Reference
- Wikipedia · Wikidata
The authorship story
Diary of an Oxygen Thief was self-published in Amsterdam in 2006, a first person confession by an Irish advertising executive who details the emotional cruelty he inflicted and the mirror-image treatment he later received. It spread by word of mouth and reissue until it reached bestseller lists a decade later, always credited to Anonymous. The author has continued to publish sequels without a name. The anonymity is deliberate and ongoing, and in line with this site's standards the entry reports only the documented record: no identification is asserted, and none is speculated on here.
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