Satin Island
Book formats
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Paperback No offers
Book short specifications
- Author
- Tom McCarthy
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Language
- english
- Release date
- March 24, 2016
- ISBN
- 978-0-09-954699-3
- GTIN
- 9780099546993
- Weight, g
- 170
About
U. is a 'corporate anthropologist' who, while working on a giant, epoch-defining project no one really understands, is also tasked with writing the Great Report on our society. But 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.
Is there a secret logic holding all these images together? Once cracked, will it unlock the master-meaning of our era? Might it have something to do with the dead parachutists in the news? Perhaps; perhaps not.