Satin Island
by Tom McCarthy
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Pub Date 12 Mar 2015 | Archive Date 23 Nov 2015
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
U. is a 'corporate anthropologist' who, while working on a giant, epoch-defining project no one really understands, is also tasked with writing the Great Report on our society. But 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.
Is there a secret logic holding all these images together? Once cracked, will it unlock the master-meaning of our era? Might it have something to do with the dead parachutists in the news? Perhaps; perhaps not.
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition – available to read in UK, Commonwealth and Europe, excluding Canada.
Advance Praise
Praise for C:
'C inserts
itself, slyly yet confidently, into the history of modernism. This is a
genuinely exciting and spookily beautiful book, a new kind of joy.'
Neel Mukherjee, The Times
'McCarthy is fast revealing himself as a master craftsman who is steering the contemporary novel towards exciting territories.'
Observer
'An
intelligent, ambitious book... A beautiful, accessible novel with 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 enjoyed as well as discussed.'
Beth Jones, Sunday Telegraph
Marketing Plan
Follow-up to C, shortlisted
for 2010 Booker/ (Was bookies' favourite, and betting was cancelled:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/07/booker-prize-betting-suspended-tom-mccarthy)
McCarthy
is the most celebrated of a new breed of English novelist questioning
and attempting to reinvent the form for today's readers. His novel Remainder was crediting with defining a new path for the novel by Zadie Smith, who described it as 'one of the great English novels of the past ten years'.
A
book for our ages: a rare and ambitious novel in that it attempts to
articulate the contemporary - both its political and corporate global
landscape and the individual's condition.
Returns to the register, contemporary setting and concerns of Remainder, which remains the book he is best recognised for. (The Film Four production of that novel will be released 2015.)
Author's
bold views and the international significance, not to mention invention
and quality, of this work should guarantee enormous coverage.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781446444085 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
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