Men in Space - Hardcover

Tom McCarthy

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846880335 ISBN 13: 9781846880339

Publisher: Alma Books Ltd, 2007

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Set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of Communism, Men in Space follows a cast of dissolute Bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent and a stranded astronaut as they chase a stolen icon painting from Sofia to Prague and onwards. The icon s melancholy orbit is reflected in the various characters ellipses and near misses as they career vertiginously through all kinds of space: physical, political, emotional and metaphysical. What emerges is a vision of humanity adrift in history, and a world in a state of disintegration. Following the huge critical success of Remainder, McCarthy s first novel, Men in Space confirms him as one of the most original and promising voices in English fiction today.

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Review:

"I, for one, am glad that the independent publishing house Alma Books is brave enough to back such idiosyncratic work." --"The Daily Telegraph"

"A compelling and imaginative philosophical novel." --"Frieze Magazine"

"A confident and intelligent meditation on failed flights of transcendence." --"Times Literary Supplement"

"McCarthy writes with devastating charm and lucidity." --"The Guardian"

"McCarthy is fast revealing himself as a master craftsman who is steering the contemporary novel towards exciting territories." --"The Observer"

About the Author:

Tom McCarthy was born in 1969 and lives in London. He is known for the reports, manifestos and media interventions he has made as General Secretary of the International Necronautical Society (INS), a semi-fictitious avant-garde network. His first novel Remainder was published by Alma in 2006.

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