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Remainder
Tom McCarthy
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Description for Remainder
Paperback. A prize-winning modern classic by the Man Booker shortlisted author Tom McCarthy. It contains a foreword by American scholar McKenzie Wark. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 229 x 31. Weight in Grams: 272.
Traumatized by an accident which ‘involved something falling from the sky’ and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, Remainder’s hero spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting vaguely remembered scenes and situations from his past: a large building with piano music in the distance, the familiar smells and sounds of liver frying and spluttering, lethargic cats lounging on roofs until they tumble off them... But when this fails to quench his thirst for authenticity, he starts re-enacting more and more violent events, as his repetition addiction spirals ... Read more
Traumatized by an accident which ‘involved something falling from the sky’ and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, Remainder’s hero spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting vaguely remembered scenes and situations from his past: a large building with piano music in the distance, the familiar smells and sounds of liver frying and spluttering, lethargic cats lounging on roofs until they tumble off them... But when this fails to quench his thirst for authenticity, he starts re-enacting more and more violent events, as his repetition addiction spirals ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Surrey, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846883804
SKU
V9781846883804
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-13
About Tom McCarthy
Tom McCarthy was born in 1969 and lives in London. He is known for the reports, manifestos and media interventions he has made as General Secretary of the International Necronautical Society (INS), a semi-fictitious avant-garde network. His critically acclaimed debut novel, Remainder, was a worlwide success and has been translated into many languages. His non-fiction book Tintin and the Secret ... Read more
Reviews for Remainder
Remainder is an intelligent and absurd satire on consumer culture.
The Times
Its minatory brilliance calls for classic status
The Independent
There are echoes of Beckett, Flann O'Brien too, perhaps, but in the end McCarthy has a precision, a surreal logic and a sly wit that is all his own. It will be a long time ... Read more
The Times
Its minatory brilliance calls for classic status
The Independent
There are echoes of Beckett, Flann O'Brien too, perhaps, but in the end McCarthy has a precision, a surreal logic and a sly wit that is all his own. It will be a long time ... Read more