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Remainder
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 14.95A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it. Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can?t quite place. How he goes about bringing his visions to life?and what happens afterward?makes for one of the most riveting, complex,... more...
C
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00C has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. The acclaimed author of Remainder, which Zadie Smith hailed as ?one of the great English novels of the past ten years,?gives us his most spectacularly inventive novel yet. Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father... more...
C
Knopf Canada 2010; US$ 21.00An epochal saga from the acclaimed author of Remainder , C takes place in the early years of the twentieth century and ranges from western England to Europe to North Africa. Serge Carrefax spends his childhood at Versoie House, where his father teaches deaf children to speak when he's not experimenting with wireless telegraphy. Sophie, Serge's... more...
C
Random House Group Ltd 2010; US$ 10.67C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him. Born to the sound of one of the very earliest experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world... more...
Men in Space
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthy?acclaimed author of Remainder and C ? Men in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism. It follows an oddball cast?dissolute bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent, and a stranded astronaut?as they chase a stolen... more...
Men in Space
Knopf Canada 2012; US$ 19.95The first novel by the Booker Prize finalist Tom McCarthy ? author of Remainder and C ? Men in Space is a clever entrée into the art world, and a look at the bohemian life that was Prague in the 1990s. Set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism, Men in Space follows a cast of dissolute bohemians, political refugees,... more...
Swimming Home
And Other Stories Publishing 2011; US$ 11.65Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression can have on apparently stable, well-turned-out people. Set in a summer villa, the story is tautly structured, taking place over a single week in which a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the French Riviera come loose at the seams. more...
Transmission and the Individual Remix
Random House 2012; US$ 4.69Listen... A set of signals has been pulsing, repeating, modulating in the airspace of literature... This essay is an invitation to listen to those signals, as they travel through and shape the work of Aeschylus and Ovid, Rilke, Conrad, Burroughs, Joyce and others. To retune our idea of what a writer does, of what the very act of writing... more...
Transmission and the Individual Remix
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 1.99Sub-titled "How Literature Works" this essay by the renown novelist is a provocative and entertaining work of postmodern theory that re-evaluates literature and literary meaning from Aeschylus to Kraftwerk. A VINTAGE EBOOK ORIGINAL. Tom McCarthy is one of the most vital young voices in contemporary literature, and in this essay he identifies the... more...
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