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Tom McCarthy - C
Released: 05/08/2010
Jonathan Cape
From the acclaimed author of Remainder comes an eerie epochal tale about the short life of Serge Carrefax. Born into a world where experimental transmissions embody modernity, we see him travel the world in various roles, pursuing wireless fancies and coming to terms with a childhood loss. Mesmerising.
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Scotsman“Bold and ambitious...” McCarthy is one of the most intelligent and talented novelists of our generation. Future scholars will argue over whether C is the end of his apprenticeship or the beginning of his mature period...
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80 %
The Boston Globe“An extraordinarily transporting novel...” Toward the book’s close, McCarthy loses control of his narrative a bit and suddenly resembles a professor racing to get through the syllabus before the semester ends: so many ideas to impart, so many points to underline, so little time remaining...
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30%
The New York Times“Disappointing and highly self-conscious...” This London is evocative of the unreal city famously conjured by T. S. Eliot in “The Waste Land,” one of those founding documents of modernism that this novel attempts to excavate and deconstruct, but it does so without ever managing to turn them
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100%
The Telegraph“A beautifully crafted bildungsroman...” This is one of the most brilliant books to have hit the shelves this year, and McCarthy deserves high praise for an electric piece of writing which should be read and enjoyed as much as dissected and discussed...
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80 %
The Independent“Arresting literature...” C's appearance on the Booker longlist prior to publication masks a problem - there isn't the near-perfect marriage of theme and subject matter that characterised Remainder. Formidably well-assembled and admirable for an unashamed literary ambition...
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70 %
Financial Times“Asks to be decoded...” McCarthy’s project is ambitious, clever and, when he writes about it in essay form, exciting. As a novel, it remains frustrating. Serge seems to be above characterisation, in the same way the novel seems to be above plot...
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80 %
Guardian“Depends on the reader's appetite for certain types of analysis...” The near-Joycean scale and density of all this is truly impressive, as is McCarthy's ability to fold it into a cleanly constructed narrative, which has its boring stretches but also moments of humour and weird beauty...
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