The Making of Incarnation
FROM THE TWICE BOOKER SHORLISTED AUTHOR
$26.43
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
17 January 2023
Summary
The most ambitious and exciting novel yet from the Booker shortlisted author of C and Satin Island.
Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? Where’s our fucking airplane? What’s inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it?
Deep within the archives of time-and-motion pioneer Lillian Gilbreth lies a secret. Gilbreth helped birth the era of mass observation and big data but did she also discover a ‘perfect’ movement th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529114386 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529114381 |
| Author: | Tom McCarthy |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 17 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 268g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
In its conceptual magnitude, its sustainedly dazzling prose… The Making of Incarnation feels utterly original, utterly new, utterly magical… Tom McCarthy, the most visionary of contemporary writers, is light years ahead of anyone writing anywhere currently. * Neel Mukherjee *
A typically ambitious mille-feuille of modernity, symbolism and myth. – Katy Guest * Guardian *
One of the most brilliantly intellectual novelists of the moment… The Making of Incarnation is like a ghostwritten hybrid of a John le Carré thriller, the post-modern philosophy of Jacques Derrida and a sci-fi romp all at the same time… There is something uplifting about McCarthy’s work. He makes you think, and he makes you think things you hadn’t thought before. – Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday *
Hugely interesting, energetic, wise and well written. – Sam Leith * GQ *
Difficulty is…part of the pleasure of reading McCarthy… The Making of Incarnation is a novel of motion rather than emotion; imagine an even chillier JG Ballard… a rich and fascinating exercise in observation – Charles Arrowsmith * Independent *
A Kafka for the Google Age. * Daily Telegraph - Praise for ‘Satin Island’ *
About The Author
Tom McCarthy
Tom McCarthy’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and adapted for cinema, theatre and radio.
His third novel, C, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and the Europese Literatuurprijs. His fourth, Satin Island, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize.
McCarthy is also the author of the study Tintin and the Secret of Literature and the essay collection Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish. He lives in Berlin.
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