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Known in the art world 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, Tom McCarthy is the author of four novels: Remainder, Men in Space, C and Satin Island. The last two were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction.Remainder is an intelligent and absurd satire on consumer culture.
The Times
Its minatory brilliance calls for classic status
The Independent
There are echoes of Beckett, Flann O'Brien too, perhaps, but in the end McCarthy has a precision, a surreal logic and a sly wit that is all his own. It will be a long time before you come across a stranger book, or a truer one.
- Rupert Thomson, The Observer
Remainder, with seamless prose, endlessly probes the surface of the "event", its infinite elements, angles, perspectives, how it comes about, how it can be brought about again, then lived and relived in Ballardian orbits and Beckettian vibrations... It will remain with you long after you have felt compelled to re-read it.
Time Out
Strangely gripping... Remainder should be read (and, of course, reread) for its intelligence and humour.
The Times Literary Supplement
This isn’t how we expect a novel to be, but it’s why it’s a very good novel indeed.
London Review of Books
McCarthy delivers his wacky tale, an enquiry into authenticity and experience, with persuasive logic and a nice line in absurdist humour.
Literary Review
...Enthralling, dotted with dark humour and undoubted originality
The Irish Times
Its minatory brilliance calls for classic status
The Independent
This is a refreshingly idiosyncratic, enjoyably intelligent read by a writer with ideas and talent
The Guardian