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  • Remainder

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it.Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can’t quite place.How he goes about bringing his visions to life–and what happens afterward–makes for one of the most riveting, complex, and unusual novels in recent memory.Remainder is ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Satin Island

    A novel

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Short-listed for the Man Booker PrizeFrom the author of Remainder and C (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize), and a winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, comes Satin Island, an unnerving novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the world—modern, postmodern, whatever world you think you are living in.U., a “corporate anthropologist,” is tasked with writing the Great ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • C

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    C has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.The acclaimed author of Remainder, which Zadie Smith hailed as “one of the great English novels of the past ten years,”gives us his most spectacularly inventive novel yet.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 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Greatest Sniper Stories Ever Told

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Series series Greatest
    In The Greatest Sniper Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about snipers that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books, magazines, movies, and elsewhere. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Chris Kyle (author of American Sniper), Joe LeBleu, Gina Cavallaro and Matt Larsen, and many others. It includes ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Susie's Son

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Tom McCarthy is a poet and storyteller from Limerick, Ireland and many of his adventures are enhanced by his poems which flow naturally with the narrative. Beginning with his early days in Ballynanty, the reader is invited to join Tom as he observes his younger self on life's journey. Some events which are pivotal to the story include schooldays, learning to be a boxer, journeys to work in England ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Threshold and the Ledger

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    A timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy.Since her untimely death in 1973, Ingeborg Bachmann has come to be regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most important writers. Unpacking a single Bachmann poem, novelist Tom McCarthy latches onto two of its central terms — the eponymous threshold and ledger — and takes off on a line of flight ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • World's Greatest Horse Stories

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    The American horse is "a canvas on which we’ve painted American identity.”For the more than two million horse owners in the United States and the countless others who dream of riding, here is a collection offering the best writing about horses from America’s best writers. “Horse Whisperer” Buck Brannaman, New York Time’s best-seller Melinda Roth, and a dozen other writers offer engaging stories ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Making of Incarnation

    A novel

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    From the author of Remainder, and two novels short-listed for the Booker Prize, C, and Satin Island, a widescreen odyssey through the medical labs, computer graphics studios, military research centers, and other dark zones where the frontiers of potential—to cure, kill, understand or entertain—are constantly tested and refined.Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Recessional - Or, the Time of the Hammer

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Series series Think Art
    Modernist and contemporary literature are marked by a preoccupation with time, specifically with the passage of time characterized by starts and stops and suspended states of waiting. Acclaimed novelist Tom McCarthy brings out a temporal pattern, a subliminal convention of a certain fringe of modernism that works both in and against the canon of modernist literature in works by Thomas Pynchon, J. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    C

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Narrated by Stephen Hoye ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 58 min

    Serge Carrefax spends his childhood at Versoie House, where his father teaches deaf children to speak when he's not experimenting with wireless telegraphy. Sophie, Serge's sister and only connection to the world at large, takes outrageous liberties with Serge's young body—which may explain the unusual sexual predilections that haunt him for the rest of his life. After recuperating from a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish

    Essays

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Essays on literature, pop culture, and more from the cult novelist and critic Tom McCarthyFifteen brilliant essays written over as many years provide a map of the sensibility and critical intelligence of Tom McCarthy, one of the most original and challenging novelists at work today. Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish explores a wide range of subjects, from the weather considered as a form of media, to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Great American Shipwreck Stories

    Lyons Press Classics

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Great American Shipwreck Stories is a magnificent collection of gripping accounts of a ship's encounter with a great whale or an overwhelming monsoon or a disastrous passage through the Straits of Magellan, leading to a wreck and a crew's harrowing plight for survival on the open seas or on a desert island. Capturing all the elements of ancient and powerful tragedy, this book is chockful of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD