Description
| Product ID: | 9781846884207 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Title: | Remainder |
| Authors: | Author: Tom McCarthy |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Film Tie-in edition to be published to coincide with the release of the film Remainder. Praised by Zadie Smith as "one of the great English novels of the past ten year", this edition contains a foreword by American scholar McKenzie Wark. NOW A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FILMTraumatized by an accident which ‘involved something falling from the sky’ and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, Remainder’s hero spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting vaguely remembered scenes and situations from his past: a large building with piano music in the distance, the familiar smells and sounds of liver frying and spluttering, lethargic cats lounging on roofs until they tumble off them... But when this fails to quench his thirst for authenticity, he starts re-enacting more and more violent events, as his repetition addiction spirals out of control.A darkly comic meditation on memory, identity and history, Remainder is a parable for modern times. |
| Imprint Name: | Alma Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Alma Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-06-02 |
