Satin Island

Informationen zum Autor 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 inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize by Yale University. McCarthy is also author of the study Tintin and the Secret of Literature , and of the essay collection Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish . He lives in Berlin. Klappentext 'Smart! shimmering and thought-provoking... McCarthy is a born novelist! a pretty fantastic one! who has figured out a way to make cultural theory funny! scary and suspenseful - in other words! compulsively readable' New York Times Zusammenfassung spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic jams, roller-blade processions.

Product details

• Authors: Tom McCarthy
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.03.2016
• EAN: 9780099546993
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954699-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, booker prize; booker winner; nobel prize; booker shortlist