Remainder - Couverture souple

McCarthy, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846884209 ISBN 13 : 9781846884207

Editeur : Alma Books Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

NOW A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FILM Traumatized by an accident which involves "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 reconstructing 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tom McCarthy was born in 1969 and lives in London. He is known for the reports, manifestos and media interventions hehas made as General Secretary of the International Necronautical Society (INS), a semi-fictitious avant-garde network. His novel Men in Space was published by Alma in 2007 and his latest novel C was shortlisted for the Man Booker 2010.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Alma Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846884209
• ISBN 13: 9781846884207
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible