Tom McCarthy Knihy

Román C, odehrávající se na přelomu devatenáctého a dvacátého století, zachycuje nedlouhý život Serge Carrefaxe. Jeho otec je zapálený vynálezce-amatér a vede školu pro nedoslýchavé děti. Serge i jeho sestra Sophie stráví podivné dětství mezi fonografy, radiopřístroji a chemikáliemi. Z ní vyroste nadějná studentka chemie, v sedmnácti však spáchá sebevraždu. Serge nastoupí na začátku války k leteckému výcviku. Válečné hrůzy v něm na rozdíl od ostatních vzbuzují vzrušení a zájem, stejně jako drogy, na kterých si rychle vypěstuje závislost. Ani jeho život nekončí šťastně – nejedná se o sebevraždu, nejde o důsledky války: může za to láska. Sergův život sledujeme okem kamery, poznáme jej do nejmenších detailů a naprosto bez emocí, a odhalíme podivuhodné podhoubí opakujících se „zrcadlových“ motivů a ozvěn. Díky striktní objektivitě vypravěče získávají i docela běžné události přídech bizarnosti a chladné zvrácenosti.

The narrative explores the fluctuating history of professional baseball in Trenton, New Jersey, highlighting its struggles and sporadic successes throughout the twentieth century. Set against the backdrop of the dominant sports scenes in nearby New York and Philadelphia, the story showcases the resurgence of minor-league baseball in Trenton, which has since cultivated a dedicated fan base that rivals many in Double-A baseball.

Developing the Whole Person: A Practitioner's Tale of Counseling, College, and the American Promise explores the achievements and difficulties of postwar counseling psychologists in advancing a whole person development model for American higher education.

Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with an Arctic explorer, sail the Straits of Magellan with Joshua Slocum, or watch with Owen Chase as an angry whale sends his ship to the bottom, thousands of miles from the nearest land. But it's quite another thing to read these true accounts while settled into a favorite chair. Slocum and Chase persevered in the face of travails that would have given Job pause. Their stoic accounts are stronger and more dramatic for their total lack of affection, their frankness, and their lack of ego. Their gripping stories are custom-made for the imaginative reader who seeks adventure in a more controlled environment, safe and warm, and well fed - civilized readers with their armchairs anchored firmly to the living room floor. Rich in drama and history, here are stories that will entertain, inform, and inspire--enduring stories that have attracted generations of readers.

Top instructor Jim McLean decodes Ben Hogan's legendary golf swing using rare film footage. He analyzes key motions and reveals fifteen secrets of Hogan's technique, including grip, rotation, and head position. This comprehensive guide offers insights from Hogan's peers and showcases the mechanics of his perfect swing like never before.

The third of four special publications to accompany a year-long display of works from Barcelona's la Caixa Collection at Whitechapel Gallery, selected by and featuring newly commissioned fictional works by some of the most original English and Spanish-language writers working today.

Set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of Communism, this title follows a cast of dissolute Bohemians, political refugees, football referees, deaf police agents, assassins and stranded astronauts as they chase a stolen icon painting from Sofia to Prague and beyond.

"Essays on literature, pop culture, and more from the cult novelist and critic Tom McCarthy Fifteen brilliant essays written over as many years provide a map of the sensibility and critical intelligence of Tom McCarthy, one of the most original and challenging novelists at work today. Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish explores a wide range of subjects, from the weather considered as a form of media, to the paintings of Gerhard Richter and the movies of David Lynch, to Patty Hearst as revolutionary sex goddess, to the still-radical implications of established masterpieces such as Ulysses (how do you write after it?), Tristram Shandy, and the unsung junky genius Alexander Trocchi's darkly beautiful Cain's Book. The longer "Recessional" examines the place of time in writing--how writing makes a new time of its own, a time apart from institutional time--while the startling "Nothing Will Have Taken Place" moves from Mallarme and Don DeLillo to the ball mastery of Zidane to look at how art, whether that of a poet, novelist, or athlete, destroys given codes of meaning and behavior, returning them to play. Certain points of reference recur with dreamlike insistence--among them the artist Ed Ruscha's Royal Road Test, a photographic documentation of the roadside debris of a Royal typewriter hurled from the window of a traveling car; the great blooms of jellyfish that are filling the oceans and gumming up the machinery of commerce and military domination--and the question throughout is: How can art explode the restraining conventions of so-called realism, whether aesthetic or political, to engage in the active reinvention of the world?"-- Provided by publisher

Exciting early work by the Man Booker-shortlisted author, discussing Herge's hugely popular children's books. McCarthy asks the question: is Tintin literature? and delves into a story of hushed-up royal descent in both Herge's work and the family history of the author.