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 about the secret world each of us harbors within, and what might happen if we were granted the power to make it real. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Remainder

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 about the secret world each of us harbors within, and what might happen if we were granted the power to make it real.

Daryl Houston

This was a very fun read, very consumable but also sort of dazzling in how it makes you inhabit the perspective of the main character, whose view of the world turns out to be pretty interesting and twisted (yet in some ways understandable if misguided). The prose is a cinch, the ideas fun, and the story a train wreck that you initially can't imagine will be the case but then suspect will be the case and can't pry your eyes away from. This was a better (if also probably much easier to write) book than McCarthy's C, and the two together definitely make me want to keep an eye on this author.

Karolina Klermon-Williams

Will Vunderink

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Kyle Barron-Cohen

Traumatised by an accident which 'involved something falling from the sky' and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, the hero of this novel spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting vaguely remembered scenes and situations from his past.

Gary Homewood

Remainder

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