Remainder

In her review (linked-to above), Margot Kaminsky asserts that Remainder is a "chillingly clever novel of patterns that fools you into thinking it's a novel about plot."

Point of View in Fiction 2009

For me, the most indispensable element in the aesthetic success of Tom McCarthy's novel Remainder is McCarthy's use of the novel's brain-damaged protagonist as its first-person narrator.

Point of View in Fiction 2009

And the disconcerting mental seizures — not so different from what happens to the guy in Remainder with his mysterious accident that causes memory loss?

Seizure « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

Tom McCarthy's Remainder is a deeply weird novel about a man recovering from a catastrophic brain injury, who uses a huge settlement from the company responsible for it to try to artificially recreate and live within the most resonant moments of his life.

MIND MELD: Underrated Authors 2008

February 2, 2006 at 11: 34 am to rephrase that last paragraph: not all local papers have gone the route of the one you suggest, and the Chicopee Remainder is one of them.

Playing the Walmart card « BuzzMachine 2006

Interesting — I’m thinking that the border between fantasy and reality doesn’t interest me that much as a novelistic subject, and yet that’s exactly what Remainder is about.

Seizure « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

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Mr. McCarthy, the author of two previous books — "Remainder" (2006), a comparatively straightforward novel, and "Tintin and the Secret of Literature" (2006), a work of nonfiction — seems to know everything.

The Fear of a Failure to Communicate 2010

"Remainder" sounds like it is going down a very different road.

More Thoughts on Incandescence Karen Burnham 2008