Satin Island by Tom Mccarthy

Satin Island by Tom Mccarthy

*Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker prize* *Shortlisted for the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize * *‘A horrifyingly comic novel of ideas with its fingers jammed into the light-socket of the age’ Guardian* *‘A Kafka for the Google Age’ Daily Telegraph* Meet U. – a talented and uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments, and, to this end, expect their 'corporate anthropologist' to help decode and manipulate the world around them – all the more so now that a giant, epoch-defining project is in the offing. 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 daily basis: oil spills, African traffic jams, roller-blade processions, zombie parades. Is there, U. wonders, a secret logic holding all these images together – a codex that, once cracked, will unlock the master-meaning of our age? Might it have something to do with South Pacific Cargo Cults, or the dead parachutists in the news? Perhaps; perhaps not. As U. oscillates between the visionary and the vague, brilliance and bullshit, Satin Island emerges, an impassioned and exquisite novel for our disjointed times.

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 *

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	9780224090193
ISBN 10	0224090194
Title	Satin Island
Author	Tom Mccarthy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2015-03-12
Number of pages	192
Prizes	Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015 (UK), Short-listed for The Goldsmiths Prize 2015 (UK)
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.