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Remainder
Tom Mccarthy
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Description for Remainder
Paperback. Film Tie-in edition to be published to coincide with the release of the film Remainder. Praised by Zadie Smith as "one of the great English novels of the past ten year", this edition contains a foreword by American scholar McKenzie Wark. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274.
Traumatized by an accident which involves 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 reconstructing more and more violent events, as his repetition addiction ... Read more
Traumatized by an accident which involves 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 reconstructing more and more violent events, as his repetition addiction ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Surrey, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846884207
SKU
V9781846884207
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Ref
99-2
About Tom Mccarthy
Tom McCarthy was born in 1969 and lives in London. He is known for the reports, manifestos and media interventions hehas made as General Secretary of the International Necronautical Society (INS), a semi-fictitious avant-garde network. His novel Men in Space was published by Alma in 2007 and his latest novel C was shortlisted for the Man Booker 2010.
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 ... Read more