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Satin Island
- Author
- Tom McCarthy
- Narrator
- James Langton
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 17 February 2015
- Run Time
- 5 hours 42 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Tom McCarthy
- Narrator
- James Langton
- Duration
- 5 hours 42 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 February 2015
- ISBN
- 9781490658148
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Religious and spiritual fiction, Dystopian and utopian fiction
Synopsis
MEET U. - CORPORATE ANTHROPOLOGIST secreted in the basement of a large consultancy. U. spends his time toiling away at a great, epoch-defining public project which no one, least of all its own creators, understands. Besieged by data, confronted at every turn by the fact of his own redundancy, U. grows obsessed with the images - oil-spills, roller-bladers heading nowhere over streets that revolutionaries once tore up, zombies on parade - which the world and all its veil-like screens bombard him with on a daily basis. Is there a plot at work behind the veil? Is it buffering a portal to the technological divine? Who killed the parachutist in the news? And what's this got to do with South Pacific Cargo Cults? U.'s disconnected notes from underground in fact amount to an impassioned, integrated vision - of disintegration. Satin Island is a book that captures our out-of-joint times like no other.
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