C by Tom Mccarthy
Born to the sound of one of the very earliest experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions, whose very air seems filled with cryptic and poetic signals of all kinds. When personal loss strikes him in his adolescence, this world takes on a darker and more morbid aspect.
A supercharged, fizzingly written Bildungsroman..the remix the novel has been crying out for. -- Robert Collins * Sunday Times *
C is unquestionably brilliant...This is a genuinely exciting and spookily beautiful book, a new kind of joy. -- Neel Mukherjee * The Times *
Beautiful ... a thrilling tale. This is one of the most brilliant books to have hit the shelves this year, and McCarthy deserves high praise for an electric piece of writing which should be read and enjoyed as much as dissected and discussed. -- Beth Jones * Sunday Telegraph *
A dizzying, mesmeric and beautifully written work...Tom McCarthy has written a novel for our times: refreshingly different, intellectually acute and strikingly enjoyable...it seems highly unlikely that anyone will publish a better novel this year. -- Stuart Evers * Daily Telegraph *
Spellbinding...[McCarthy's] ideas produce the electrifying, spooked ambience of a modernist symphony -- Tim Robey * Daily Telegraph *
C is unquestionably brilliant...This is a genuinely exciting and spookily beautiful book, a new kind of joy. -- Neel Mukherjee * The Times *
Beautiful ... a thrilling tale. This is one of the most brilliant books to have hit the shelves this year, and McCarthy deserves high praise for an electric piece of writing which should be read and enjoyed as much as dissected and discussed. -- Beth Jones * Sunday Telegraph *
A dizzying, mesmeric and beautifully written work...Tom McCarthy has written a novel for our times: refreshingly different, intellectually acute and strikingly enjoyable...it seems highly unlikely that anyone will publish a better novel this year. -- Stuart Evers * Daily Telegraph *
Spellbinding...[McCarthy's] ideas produce the electrifying, spooked ambience of a modernist symphony -- Tim Robey * Daily Telegraph *
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780224090209 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224090208 |
| Title | C |
| Author | Tom Mccarthy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-08-05 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Galaxy National Book Awards: Waterstone's UK Author of the Year 2010, Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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