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Loading... C (original 2010; edition 2010)by Tom McCarthy
Work InformationC by Tom McCarthy (2010)
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 "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."  C may not put the novel itself onto some new path, but it is a work of outstanding originality and ambition; indeed, its ambition is so encompassing that the hypothetical existence of a next McCarthy novel would seem almost like a gainsaying of this one. AwardsNotable Lists
"Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world. After a fling with a nurse at a Bohemian spa, Serge serves in World War I as a radio operator for reconnaissance planes. When his plane is shot down, Serge is taken to a German prison camp, from which he escapes. Back in London, he's recruited for a mission to Cairo on behalf of the shadowy Empire Wireless Chain. All of which eventually carries Serge to a fitful, and perhaps fateful, climax at the bottom of an Egyptian tomb..."--Jacket. No library descriptions found. |
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