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Description C Follows The Short Intense Life Of Serge Carrefax A Man Who ? As His Name Suggests ? Surges Into The Electric Modernity Of The Early Twentieth Century Transfixed By The Technologies That Will Obliterate Him. Born To The Sound Of One Of The Very Earliest Experimental Wireless Stations Serge Finds Himself Steeped In A Weird World Of Transmissions Whose Very Air Seems Filled With Cryptic And Poetic Signals Of All Kinds. When Personal Loss Strikes Him In His Adolescence This World Takes On A Darker And More Morbid Aspect. What Follows Is A Stunning Tour De Force In Which The Eerily Idyllic Settings Of Pre-War Europe Give Way To The Exhilarating Flightpaths Of The Frontline Aeroplane Radio Operator Then The Prison Camps Of Germany The Drug-Fuelled London Of The Roaring Twenties And Finally The Ancient Tombs Of Egypt. Reminiscent Of Bola?o Beckett And Pynchon This Is A Remarkable Novel - A Compelling Sophisticated And Sublimely Imaginative Book Uncovering The Hidden Codes And Dark Rhythms That Sustain Life.Shortlisted For The Man Booker Prize 2010 And Was The Bookie'S Favourite. As A Conceptual Artist Tom Mccarthy'S Work Has Appeared In Major Galleries All Over The World. Recent Events Have Been Sell-Outs For The Ica And Tate Modern. Remainder Was The Cult Hit Of 2007. A Film Adaptation Is Scheduled With Film Four. Tom Mccarthy Was Singled Out As Reinventing The Novel By Zadie Smith'S Famous 'Two Paths Of The Novel' New York Review Of Books Essay Reviews 'C Inserts Itself Slyly Yet Confidently Into The History Of Modernism. This Is A Genuinely Exciting And Spookily Beautiful Book A New Kind Of Joy' - Neel Mukherjee The Times 'Its Questioning Hypnotic Textures Pay Dividends' - Alan Chadwick Metro 'Skilfully Realised Ambitious' - Christopher Taylor Guardian 'C Is Formidably Well Assembled And It Is Admirable For An Unashamed Literary Ambition' - Peter Carty Independent On Sunday Author Biography Tom Mccarthy Was Born In 1969 And Grew Up In London. His Creation In 1999 Of The International Necronautical Society (Ins) A 'Semi-Fictitious Organisation' That Combines Literature Art And Philosophy Has Led To Publications Installations And Exhibitions In Galleries And Museums Around The World From Tate Britain And The Ica In London To Moderna Museet In Stockholm And The Drawing Center In New York. Tom Regularly Writes On Literature And Art For Publications Including The New York Times The London Review Of Books And Artforum.