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.
| ISBN: | 9780099546993 |
| Publication date: | 24th March 2016 |
| Author: | Tom McCarthy |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 222 pages |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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