Infinite Ground by Martin Macinnes
A brilliant panic attack of a debut novel, Infinite Ground is an investigation into the swarming, sinister beauty of our own microbiology, and a celebration of the all-too-brief splendour of being alive and the enduring splendour of the natural world.
Stunning - a totally original, surreal mystery shot through with hints of the best of César Aira, Vladimir Nabokov, Angela Carter, and Julio CortázarSmart, clever, and honest. I doubt you've read anything quite like it. -- Jeff VanderMeer, author of The Southern Reach trilogy
Weird, wonderful, totally indefinable... If not the Booker, then surely the Goldsmiths beckons -- Justine Jordan * Guardian *
An electrifying piece of work: strange, terrifying, riveting, and written with scintillating intelligence. In its thinking about the porosity between the human and the non-human, it stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Ballard, Lem, VanderMeer, Tom McCarthy." -- Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others
This is the work of a most singular and inventive mind, matched by writing with real flair and clarity. It is a book alive with ideas and cock-eyed intelligence, brimming with passages of genuine brilliance. Infinite Ground does that magical thing that only the very best novels do: it makes you see the world afresh. Dazzling stuff. -- Graeme Macrae Burnet, author of His Bloody Project
Strange, haunting, dislocating -- Ian Rankin, author of the Rebus series
Brimming with strong, startling ideas... A curious and often remarkable book * Literary Review *
An accomplished debut. It takes risks and challenges the narrative form. A brave new voice - Martin MacInnes is a writer to look out for. -- Jenni Fagan, author of The Sunlight Pilgrims
A novel of intelligence, grace, cunning and warped imagination, one that melds and sometimes clashes styles and influences to create something original and unsettling. It is a bravura performance, and one that announces Martin MacInnes as one of our most exciting new voices -- Stuart Evers, author of Your Father Sends his Love
Labyrinthine, beautifully written and teeming with ideas about fiction and reality that linger long in the mind... A frighteningly good debut novel -- Lee Rourke, author of Vulgar Things
An impressive and finely textured debut... This is fiction as a metaphorical labyrinth of the mind -- Edward Docx * Guardian *
A talent of the first rank... We want to be informed and entertained, I might also say, provoked and enlarged, and Martin MacInnes delivers on all fronts with writing of genuine bravura and originality -- Christopher Potter, author of How to Make a Human Being
Strange, cerebral, incredibly assured -- Malcolm Forbes * The National *
Weird, wonderful, totally indefinable... If not the Booker, then surely the Goldsmiths beckons -- Justine Jordan * Guardian *
An electrifying piece of work: strange, terrifying, riveting, and written with scintillating intelligence. In its thinking about the porosity between the human and the non-human, it stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Ballard, Lem, VanderMeer, Tom McCarthy." -- Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others
This is the work of a most singular and inventive mind, matched by writing with real flair and clarity. It is a book alive with ideas and cock-eyed intelligence, brimming with passages of genuine brilliance. Infinite Ground does that magical thing that only the very best novels do: it makes you see the world afresh. Dazzling stuff. -- Graeme Macrae Burnet, author of His Bloody Project
Strange, haunting, dislocating -- Ian Rankin, author of the Rebus series
Brimming with strong, startling ideas... A curious and often remarkable book * Literary Review *
An accomplished debut. It takes risks and challenges the narrative form. A brave new voice - Martin MacInnes is a writer to look out for. -- Jenni Fagan, author of The Sunlight Pilgrims
A novel of intelligence, grace, cunning and warped imagination, one that melds and sometimes clashes styles and influences to create something original and unsettling. It is a bravura performance, and one that announces Martin MacInnes as one of our most exciting new voices -- Stuart Evers, author of Your Father Sends his Love
Labyrinthine, beautifully written and teeming with ideas about fiction and reality that linger long in the mind... A frighteningly good debut novel -- Lee Rourke, author of Vulgar Things
An impressive and finely textured debut... This is fiction as a metaphorical labyrinth of the mind -- Edward Docx * Guardian *
A talent of the first rank... We want to be informed and entertained, I might also say, provoked and enlarged, and Martin MacInnes delivers on all fronts with writing of genuine bravura and originality -- Christopher Potter, author of How to Make a Human Being
Strange, cerebral, incredibly assured -- Malcolm Forbes * The National *
Martin MacInnes was born in Inverness in 1983. He has an MA from the University of York, has read at international science and literature festivals, and is the winner of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and the 2014 Manchester Fiction Prize. He lives in Edinburgh.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781782399476 |
| ISBN 10 | 178239947X |
| Title | Infinite Ground |
| Author | Martin Macinnes |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2016-08-04 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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