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English
Vintage
01 October 2011
The author of 'one of the great English novels of the past ten years' moves to the next level, with a novel of thrilling action, imagination and ambition.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him.

Born to the sound of one of the very earliest experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions, whose very air seems filled with cryptic and poetic signals of all kinds. What follows is a stunning tour de force in which the eerily idyllic settings of pre-war Europe give way to the exhilarating flight-paths of the frontline aeroplane radio operator, then the prison camps of Germany, the drug-fuelled London of the roaring twenties and, finally, the ancient tombs of Egypt.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   223g
ISBN:   9780099547020
ISBN 10:   0099547023
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Tom McCarthy was born in 1969 and grew up in London. His creation, in 1999, of the International Necronautical Society (INS), a 'semi-fictitious organisation' that combines literature, art and philosophy, has led to publications, installations and exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world, from Tate Britain and the ICA in London to Moderna Museet in Stockholm and The Drawing Center in New York. Tom regularly writes on literature and art for publications including The New York Times, The London Review of Books and Artforum.

Reviews for C

NATIONAL BESTSELLER <br>A Financial Times Best Book<br>Shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards - Waterstone's UK Author of the Year <br> Gorgeous and fearsome. . . . Fascinating, uncanny, sometimes hilarious, pageantry. <br> --The Globe and Mail <br> Captivating [and] . . . deftly developed. . . . Absolutely extraordinary. . . . It leaves us reeling . . and armed with better questions than we came in with. <br> --National Post<br> <br> A narrative of energy, invention and intelligence... A novel for our times: refreshingly different, intellectually acute and strikingly enjoyable. <br>-- Telegraph <br> The delights of C arise from its imaginative energy and bursts of mesmerising lyrical prose. <br>-- New Statesman <br> Unquestionably brilliant... a genuinely exciting and spookily beautiful book, a new kind of joy. <br>--Neel Mukherjee, The Times <br> C is clever, confident, coy - and cryptic. <br>-- The Wall Street Journal <br> Tom McCarthy has w


  • Short-listed for Galaxy National Book Awards: Waterstone's UK Author of the Year 2010
  • Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010
  • Shortlisted for Galaxy National Book Awards: Waterstone's UK Author of the Year 2010.
  • Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010.

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