Satin Island - Nominiert: Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015, Nominiert: The Goldsmiths Prize 2015
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| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2016 |
| Seiten | 240 |
| Format | 12,8 x 19,7 x 1,2 cm |
| Gewicht | 174 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 009954699X |
| EAN | 9780099546993 |
| Bestell-Nr | 09954699EA |
A novel for our times, from \'a master craftsman who is steering the contemporary novel towards exciting new territories\' (Observer)
Klappentext:
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.
Rezension:
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