Tom McCarthy

Broschiertes Buch

C

Beschreibung

Follows the life of Serge Carrefax, a man who surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that obliterate him. Born to the sound of one of the experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions.

Autor

Tom McCarthy is the author of Tintin and the Secret of Literature and four internationally celebrated novels: Remainder, Men in Space, C, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize, and Satin Island, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. In 2013 McCarthy was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize by Yale University. His creation, in 1999, of the International Necronautical Society has led to installations and exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world, from Tate Britain and the ICA in London to The Drawing Center in New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 635132
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 131mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9780099547020
• ISBN-10: 0099547023
• Artikelnr.: 31186843

Rezensionen

C inserts itself, slyly yet confidently, into the history of modernism. This is a genuinely exciting and spookily beautiful book, a new kind of joy Neel Mukherjee The Times