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  • The Recognitions

    by William Gaddis, William H. Gass ...
    A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most distinctive, accomplished novelists of the last century.The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a masquerade, moving from New England to New York to Madrid, from the art world to the underworld, but ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • 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

    Was $13.99 USD Now $11.99 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

  • Daring Heists

    Real Tales of Sensational Robberies and Robbers

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Series series Mystery and Mayhem
    If you visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, you might be surprised to see frames without any paintings in them. This isn’t a mistake—museum officials hope to someday return the artwork that was stolen from the museum to these frames. In the early morning hours after St. Patrick’s Day in 1990, a guard at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Art Museum was tricked into ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Survival

    True Stories

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Series series Mystery and Mayhem
    Tales of survival are as old as humanity! In Survival: True Stories, readers discover accounts of survival that required innovation, a thirst for adventure, and even a bit of brutality. Whether it's Shackleton on the frozen landscape of Antarctica or William Bligh and his loyal followers adrift in the Pacific after mutiny on the Bounty, survival is a fascinating topic for readers ages 9 to 12 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • The Complete Hogan

    A Shot-by-Shot Analysis of Golf's Greatest Swing

    by Jim McLean, Tom McCarthy ...
    Top golfing instructor Jim McLean uses rare film footage of Ben Hogan to break down the greatest swing of all timeGolf legend Ben Hogan had the perfect golf swing, but how exactly it worked has long been a mystery?until now. Using footage from three never-before analyzed films of Hogan at his very best, Jim McLean analyzes the crucial motions of Hogan's entire golf swing and shows you how to ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Men in Space

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthy—acclaimed author of Remainder and C—Men in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism. It follows an oddball cast—dissolute bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent, and a stranded astronaut—as they chase a stolen painting from Sofia to Prague and onward. Planting ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $6.99 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

  • 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

    Was $7.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

  • Transmission and the Individual Remix

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Sub-titled "How Literature Works" this essay by the renown novelist is a provocative and entertaining work of postmodern theory that re-evaluates literature and literary meaning from Aeschylus to Kraftwerk. A VINTAGE EBOOK ORIGINAL.Tom McCarthy is one of the most vital young voices in contemporary literature, and in this essay he identifies the signals that have been repeating, pulsing, modulating ... Read more

    $1.99 USD