Remainder, Tom McCarthy
Remainder, Tom McCarthy
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Remainder
A Novel

Author: Tom McCarthy

Narrator: James Langton

Unabridged: 8 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/14/2010


Synopsis

A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it.

Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can't quite place.

How he goes about bringing his visions to life—and what happens afterward—makes for one of the most riveting, complex, and unusual novels in recent memory.

About Tom McCarthy

Tom McCarthy is a writer and conceptual artist. He is known in the art world for the reports, manifestos, and media interventions he has made as general secretary of the International Necronautical Society (INS), a semi-fictitious avant-garde network. He is the author of Remainder, Men in Space, and Tintin and the Secret of Literature. Tom lives in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Greg on July 07, 2012

Zadie Smith praised this book and in her essay on 'realistic' versus whatever you want to call this sort of novel. I'm sure she is smarter than I am and she maybe knows more about literature, but I don't share her enthusiasm for this and I think that there are many better examples of books out there......more

Goodreads review by Oscar on June 17, 2019

Novela extraña donde las haya, pero también de las que perduran en la memoria tiempo después de su lectura. Mediante una prosa sencilla, Tom McCarthy aborda temas trascendentales como la imperfección de la realidad o la búsqueda de lo auténtico. La historia tiene como protagonista a un londinense que......more

Goodreads review by Lark on November 02, 2021

Wow! Hmm. That could be my whole review. I'm glad I kept the faith while reading this book. The first part gives the impression that you're about to read a confessional weepy survivor story, and then the story veers without warning into a story that grapples in the most graphic way possible with the......more

Goodreads review by Hakan on August 22, 2016

ingiltere'nin büyük yayıncılarının defalarca reddettiği bir romanmış kalan. küçük bir yayınevi tarafından basılmış, kitapçılara bile dağıtılmamış, derken bir tanıtım yazısıyla eleştirmenlerin dikkatini çekmiş, sonra ödüller almış, yazarına şöhret kazandırmış, on dört dile çevrilmiş... bu tür başarı h......more

Goodreads review by Laryssa on July 02, 2008

Finally, I finished reading Remainder by Tom McCarthy. I have been reading this 300-something page book, which I purchased based on a recommendation from McSweeney’s, for weeks. Today, I willed myself to finish it. My professors at the University of Maryland, Merrill Feitell and Maud Casey, constantl......more