Tom McCarthy

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London, England, The United Kingdom

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http://www.surplusmatter.com

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Literature & Fiction

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Tom McCarthy — “English fiction’s new laureate of disappointment” (Time Out, September 2007) — is a writer and artist. He was born in 1969 and lives in a tower-block in London. Tom grew up in Greenwich, south London, and studied English at New College, Oxford. After a couple of years in Prague in the early 1990s, he lived in Amsterdam as literary editor of the local Time Out, and later worked in British television as well as co-editing Mute magazine.

His debut novel Remainder was first published in November 2005 by Paris-based art press Metronome. After becoming a cult hit championed first by British webzines (it was 3:AM Magazine’s Book of the Year for 2005) and then by the literary press, Remainder was republished by Alma Books in the UK...more

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Average rating: 3.36 · 3,482 ratings · 779 reviews · 17 distinct works

	Remainder 3.51 avg rating — 2,036 ratings — published 2006 — 16 editions	My rating:
	C 3.06 avg rating — 1,155 ratings — published 2010 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Men in Space 3.56 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Tintin and the Secret of Literature 3.41 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Transmission and the Individual Remix 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Norman Bethune by Tom McCarthy, Krista Johnston (Illustrator) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Frederick Banting And Charles Best, Discoverers Of Insulin by Tom McCarthy, Krista Johnston (Illustrator) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1982	My rating:
	Nellie Mc Clung, The Girl Who Liked To Ask Questions by Tom McCarthy, Krista Johnston (Illustrator) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1982	My rating:
	Когда я был настоящим 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	C [With Earbuds] by Tom McCarthy, Stephen Hoye (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“Literature has to remain frustrating — to withhold something, remain incomplete — or it’s not literature anymore, but rather entertainment, edification or interpretation. That’s literature’s USP: staying unresolved, keeping its most vital messages unspoken, creating a zone of noise where everything and nothing is said at the same time.”
― Tom McCarthy

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“Guns aren't just history's props and agents: they're history itself, spinning alternate futures in their chamber, hurling the present from their barrel, casting aside the empty shells of past ”
― Tom McCarthy, Remainder

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“All great enterprises are about logistics. Not genius or inspiration or flights of imagination, skill or cunning, but logistics.”
― Tom McCarthy, Remainder

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