Summary
A novel for our times, from ‘a master craftsman who is steering the contemporary novel towards exciting new territories’ (Observer)
U. is a ‘corporate anthropologist’ who, while working on a giant, epoch-defining project no one really understands, is also tasked with writing the Great Report on our society. But instead, U. 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 d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099546993 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009954699X |
| Author: | Tom McCarthy |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 30 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 169g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
Smart, shimmering and thought-provoking…McCarthy isn’t a frustrated cultural theorist who must content himself with writing novels; he’s 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 *
Should you read the new Tom McCarthy book? (A: Yes. Always yes.) * Huffington Post *
Dazzling and elusive… a magisterial ethnographic portrait of our overstimulated, interconnected, simulacra-addicted times. * Atlantic *
The kind of strange and ambitious fiction that you feared might have died with J. G. Ballard. …Provokes and beguiles and, at the point of revelation, it withholds. On finishing it you will have the powerful urge to throw it across the room, then the powerful urge to pick it up to read again. And that’s what’s so brilliant. – Duncan White, 5 stars * Daily Telegraph *
Confusing, clever and about to be massive. * Stylist *
For page-turning ideas, it’s a must. * Esquire *
Nails the modern condition of information overload – Anthony Cummins, 4 stars * Metro *
Satin Island is an undeniably dazzling piece of writing, a perfect tight circle of interlocking motifs, mini-treatises and allusions. – Theo Tait * Sunday *
A Kafka for the Google Age. * Daily Telegraph *
Gripping… an elegant and eerie tale. * Shortlist *
About The Author
Tom McCarthy
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.
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