*Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker prize* *Shortlisted for the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize * *`A horrifyingly comic novel of ideas with its fingers jammed into the light-socket of the age' Guardian* *`A Kafka for the Google Age' Daily Telegraph* Meet U. - a talented and uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments, and, to this end, expect their 'corporate anthropologist' to help decode and manipulate the world around ...
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*Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker prize* *Shortlisted for the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize * *`A horrifyingly comic novel of ideas with its fingers jammed into the light-socket of the age' Guardian* *`A Kafka for the Google Age' Daily Telegraph* Meet U. - a talented and uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments, and, to this end, expect their 'corporate anthropologist' to help decode and manipulate the world around them - all the more so now that a giant, epoch-defining project is in the offing. Instead, U. spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic jams, roller-blade processions, zombie parades. Is there, U. wonders, a secret logic holding all these images together - a codex that, once cracked, will unlock the master-meaning of our age? Might it have something to do with South Pacific Cargo Cults, or the dead parachutists in the news? Perhaps; perhaps not. As U. oscillates between the visionary and the vague, brilliance and bullshit, Satin Island emerges, an impassioned and exquisite novel for our disjointed times.
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None. Fine in Very Good Indeed jacket. A signed first edition, first impression of acclaimed author Tom McCarthy's Booker Prize shortlisted novel. This signed first edition, first impression, of acclaimed author Tom McCarthy's novel 'Satin Island' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2015. The novel follows the protagonist U, employed as an anthropologist for 'the Company', an elite consulting firm, as he spends his days procrastinating and attempting to connect the strange and varied images that bombard him daily. First edition, first impression, in unclipped dustwrapper. Signed by the author to the title page, dated 30th Aug 2015. A novel oscillating wonderfully between vague and visionary, McCarthy's 'Satin Island' is an impassioned novel for disjointed times. In the publisher's original hardback binding, with unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, very smart. The dustwrapper is very smart, with only some minor handling marks to the boards, where a circular sticker appears to have been removed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine.
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