C

Mint ccondition.Jonathan Cape,2010.First UK edition-2nd printing(2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3).Black hardback with Dj,both in mint condition.310pp.Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Product Description: C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him. Born to the sound of one of the very earliest experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions, whose very air seems filled with cryptic and poetic signals of all kinds. When personal loss strikes him in his adolescence, this world takes on a darker and more morbid aspect. What follows is a stunning tour de force in which the eerily idyllic settings of pre-war Europe give way to the exhilarating flight-paths of the frontline aeroplane radio operator, then the prison camps of Germany, the drug-fuelled London of the roaring twenties and, finally, the ancient tombs of Egypt. Reminiscent of Bolano, Beckett and Pynchon, this is a remarkable novel - a compelling, sophisticated and sublimely imaginative book uncovering the hidden codes and dark rhythms that sustain life.

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ISBN: 0224090208

ISBN-13: 9780224090209

Publisher: Jonathan Cape

Year: 2010

Type: New

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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