Remainder - Brossura

McCarthy, Tom

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1846884209 ISBN 13: 9781846884207

Casa editrice: Alma Books, 2016

Riassunto

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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.

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Recensione:

'A masterpiece waiting to happen - again and again and again' -- 3:AM Magazine

'It will remain with you long after you have felt compelled to re-read it' --Time Out

'a very good novel indeed' --London Review of Books

'its minatory brilliance calls for classic status' --The Independent

L'autore:

Known in the art world 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, Tom McCarthy is the author of four novels: Remainder, Men in Space, C and Satin Island. The last two were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Alma Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1846884209
• ISBN 13: 9781846884207
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288