Remainder

Zusatztext This is a refreshingly idiosyncratic, enjoyably intelligent read by a writer with ideas and talent Informationen zum Autor Tom McCarthy Klappentext 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 out of control. A darkly comic meditation on memory, identity and history, Remainder is a parable for modern times. Zusammenfassung A prize-winning modern classic by the Man Booker shortlisted author Tom McCarthy. It contains a foreword by American scholar McKenzie Wark.

Product details

• Authors: Tom McCarthy
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2015
• EAN: 9781846883804
• ISBN: 978-1-84688-380-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)