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Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 1846880416    
Release Date: 13 Jun 2007

List Price: £7.99    

Traumatised by an accident which involved something falling from the sky and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, Remainder s hero spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting vaguely remembered scenes and situations from his past: a large building with piano music in the distance, the familiar smells and sounds of liver frying and spluttering, lethargic cats lounging on roofs until they tumble off them... But when this fails to quench his thirst for authenticity, he starts reconstructing more and more violent events, including hold-ups and shoot-outs. A darkly comic meditation on memory, identity and history, Remainder is a parable for modern times.

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