Tom McCarthy
Remainder
- ISBN 13:
- 9781846883804
- author:
- Tom McCarthy
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Alma Books Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions:
- 22.9 x 3.1 x 20 cm
- Genre:
- Fiction, Contemporary Fiction,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 4 working days
Description
After an accident that left him with eight and a half million pounds but severed his connection to the world around him, Remainder's hero becomes obsessed with reconstructing and re-enacting scenes from his past. He recreates familiar settings, such as a large building with piano music in the distance, and attempts to recapture the smells and sounds of everyday life.
As he continues to repeat these actions, his fixation on authenticity grows, leading him down a dark path of increasingly violent re-enactments. This is a story about the fragility of memory, identity, and history, and how they can be manipulated and distorted.
A darkly comic meditation on the human experience, Remainder explores the complexities of modern life through its protagonist's struggles to make sense of his own reality.
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