The Making of Incarnation: FROM THE TWICE BOOKER SHORLISTED AUTHOR OF C AND SATIN ISLAND

Synopsis

Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? Where's our fucking airplane? What's inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it? Deep within the archives of time-and-motion pioneer Lillian Gilbreth lies a secret. Famous for producing solid light-tracks that captured the path of workers' movements, Gilbreth helped birth the era of mass observation and big data. Did she also, as her broken correspondence with a young Soviet physicist suggests, discover in her final days a 'perfect' movement, one that would 'change everything'? An international hunt begins for the one box missing from her records, and we follow contemporary motion-capture consultant Mark Phocan across geo-political fault lines and experimental zones: places where the frontiers of potential - to cure, kill, understand or entertain - are constantly tested and refined. And all the while, work is underway on the blockbuster film Incarnation, an epic space tragedy. Audacious and mesmeric, The Making of Incarnation weaves a set of stories one inside the other, rings within rings, a perpetual-motion machine. Tom McCarthy peers through the screen, or veil, of technological modernity to reveal the underlying historical and symbolic structures of human experience.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

336 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781473590373

Related ISBNs:

9781787333291, 9781787333307, 9781529193480, 9781529114386

Publisher:

Random House

Date of Addition:

09/06/22

Copyrighted By:

Tom McCarthy

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Technology

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