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The Making of Incarnation: FROM THE TWICE BOOKER SHORLISTED AUTHOR
Tom McCarthy
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Description for The Making of Incarnation: FROM THE TWICE BOOKER SHORLISTED AUTHOR
Paperback.
The most ambition and exciting novel yet from the Booker shortlisted author of C and Satin Island.
Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? Where's our fucking airplane? What's inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it?
Deep within the archives of time-and-motion pioneer Lillian Gilbreth lies a secret. Gilbreth helped birth the era of mass observation and big data but did she also discover a 'perfect' movement that would 'change everything'?
An international hunt begins for the one box missing from her ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781529114386
SKU
9781529114386
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Tom McCarthy
Tom McCarthy's work has been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for cinema, theatre and radio. His third novel C was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and the European Literature Prize and his fourth, Satin Island, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the ... Read more
Reviews for The Making of Incarnation: FROM THE TWICE BOOKER SHORLISTED AUTHOR
In its conceptual magnitude, its sustainedly dazzling prose... The Making of Incarnation feels utterly original, utterly new, utterly magical... Tom McCarthy, the most visionary of contemporary writers, is light years ahead of anyone writing anywhere currently.
Neel Mukherjee
A typically ambitious mille-feuille of modernity, symbolism and myth.
Katy Guest
Guardian
One of the most brilliantly ... Read more
Neel Mukherjee
A typically ambitious mille-feuille of modernity, symbolism and myth.
Katy Guest
Guardian
One of the most brilliantly ... Read more