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The Making of Incarnation

Tom McCarthy

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English
Vintage
07 February 2023
The most ambitious and exciting book to date by the author of the bestselling and prize-winning novel 'C'

The most ambition and exciting novel yet from the Booker shortlisted author of C and Satin Island.

Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? Where's our fucking airplane? What's inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it?

Deep within the archives of time-and-motion pioneer Lillian Gilbreth lies a secret. Gilbreth helped birth the era of mass observation and big data but did she also discover a 'perfect' movement that would 'change everything'?

An international hunt begins for the one box missing from her records, and we follow contemporary motion-capture consultant Mark Phocan across geo-political fault lines and experimental zones in his search for it. And all the while, work is underway on the blockbuster film Incarnation, an epic space tragedy...

'Dazzling... The Making of Incarnation feels utterly original, utterly new, utterly magical' Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others

'Hugely interesting, energetic, wise and well written' GQ

'A rich and fascinating exercise in observation' Independent
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   268g
ISBN:   9781529114386
ISBN 10:   1529114381
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Tom McCarthy's work has been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for cinema, theatre and radio. His third novel C was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and the European Literature Prize and his fourth, Satin Island, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize by Yale University. McCarthy is also author of the study Tintin and the Secret of Literature, and of the essay collection Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish. He lives in Berlin.

Reviews for The Making of Incarnation

In its conceptual magnitude, its sustainedly dazzling prose... The Making of Incarnation feels utterly original, utterly new, utterly magical; a visitor from the future. Tom McCarthy, the most visionary of contemporary writers, is light years ahead of anyone writing anywhere currently. * Neel Mukherjee * Favourite novel of 2015. * John Banville, the Observer - Praise for 'Satin Island' * A Kafka for the Google Age. * Daily Telegraph - Praise for 'Satin Island' * Should you read the new Tom McCarthy book? (A: Yes. Always yes.) * Huffington Post - Praise for 'Satin Island' * A typically ambitious mille-feuille of modernity, symbolism and myth. -- Katy Guest * Guardian *


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