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by:
Tom McCarthy (author)
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780224090209 (0224090208)
Publish date: August 2010
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Science,
Technology,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
War,
Military,
Contemporary,
Modern
Sometimes my six year old will give me the initial of something he wants and then just leave it at that. For example, I'll ask what he wants for breakfast and he'll say "M": "milk?", "mushrooms", what? What do you want for breakfast. He'll just smile enigmatically and wait for me to get around to ...
Pretty cool, but the ending was pretty boring. More fighter planes would have been cooler and if the author explained the situation a little better I would have liked it more.
Tom McCarthy plots a large story using a microscope, to zero in at certain aspects before pulling back for a wider perspective and this has a wide perspective, covering everything from the life cycle of silkworms, early telecommunications, through the first world war fighter planes and Egyptology. T...
A beautifully written artwork. Lovely & lyrical. Enigmatic. Bravo.