The Lost Time Accidents
by John Wray
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Pub Date 2 Jun 2016 | Archive Date 23 Feb 2016
Description
An adventure novel that spans the twentieth century and challenges all we know about space and time
Every moment that passes is a Lost Time Accident. Close your eyes, Children, when you want to stop Time . . .
Haunted by a failed love affair and the darkest of family secrets, Waldemar 'Waldy' Tolliver wakes one morning to discover that he has been exiled from the flow of time. The world continues to turn, and Waldy is desperate to find his way back.
In his ambitious and fiercely inventive new novel, John Wray takes us from turn-of-the-century Viennese salons buzzing with rumours about Einstein's radical new theory to the death camps of the Second World War, from the golden age of post-war pulp science fiction to a startling discovery in a modern-day Manhattan apartment packed to the ceiling with artefacts of contemporary life.
The Lost Time Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.
Every moment that passes is a Lost Time Accident. Close your eyes, Children, when you want to stop Time . . .
Haunted by a failed love affair and the darkest of family secrets, Waldemar 'Waldy' Tolliver wakes one morning to discover that he has been exiled from the flow of time. The world continues to turn, and Waldy is desperate to find his way back.
In his ambitious and fiercely inventive new novel, John Wray takes us from turn-of-the-century Viennese salons buzzing with rumours about Einstein's radical new theory to the death camps of the Second World War, from the golden age of post-war pulp science fiction to a startling discovery in a modern-day Manhattan apartment packed to the ceiling with artefacts of contemporary life.
The Lost Time Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.
Advance Praise
For a while now, John Wray has been writing as if let in on the secret history of the world, paying attention to moments we all know, but at the point where we've stopped looking. So of course only he would find the crazy quilt universe of sci-fi, war, mystery, doomed love and eerie foresight that was always lurking deep in the grand old novel in letters. This is literature as high-wire act without the net; epic in scale, even bigger in heart - Marlon James
John Wray gets his Calvino on, his Mitchell on, his Murakami on, and even his Joyce on in this spectacular rattlebag of a novel. The Lost Time Accidents circulates through time and geography - from New York to Central Europe - and eventually ebbs eloquently back to the essential questions of who we are and why we're here. Who says the novel is dead? Just smash the clocks and open this novel - Colum McCann
With this darkly playful chronicle of three generations of crackpots and criminals, losers and visionaries, John Wray has written a book of eerie magic: Waldy Tolliver's love letter to the mysterious Mrs. Haven is a secret love letter to fiction itself. A mischievous epic, luminous and strange - Kiran Desai
John Wray is the next wave of American fiction - Jonathan Lethem
America's most original young writer - Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan
John Wray is a daring young writer - James Wood, New Yorker
One of our most astonishing and relevant young writers - Esquire
John Wray gets his Calvino on, his Mitchell on, his Murakami on, and even his Joyce on in this spectacular rattlebag of a novel. The Lost Time Accidents circulates through time and geography - from New York to Central Europe - and eventually ebbs eloquently back to the essential questions of who we are and why we're here. Who says the novel is dead? Just smash the clocks and open this novel - Colum McCann
With this darkly playful chronicle of three generations of crackpots and criminals, losers and visionaries, John Wray has written a book of eerie magic: Waldy Tolliver's love letter to the mysterious Mrs. Haven is a secret love letter to fiction itself. A mischievous epic, luminous and strange - Kiran Desai
John Wray is the next wave of American fiction - Jonathan Lethem
America's most original young writer - Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan
John Wray is a daring young writer - James Wood, New Yorker
One of our most astonishing and relevant young writers - Esquire
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781782118923 |
| PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |
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