Remainder

Tom McCarthy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2007
Alma Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84688-041-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Traumatised 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, the hero spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting vaguely remembered scenes and situations from his past.

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Traumatised 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 reconstructing more and more violent events, including holdups and shoot-outs. A darkly comic meditation on memory, identity and history, "Remainder" is a parable for modern times.

Autor

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 nonfiction book Tintin and the Secret of Literature was published by Granta Books in 2006. His second novel, Men in Space, will be published by Alma in Spring 2007.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.5.2007
• Verlagsort: Surrey
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 129 x 198 mm
• Einbandart: Paperback
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1-84688-041-6 / 1846880416
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84688-041-4 / 9781846880414
• Zustand: Neuware