Men in space

ISBN: 9780307402615
ISBN: 0307402614
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource.
Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2012.

McCarthy, Tom, 1969- (Author).

Summary: -- Remainder follows a cast of dissolute bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent and a stranded astronaut as they chase a stolen painting from Sofia to Prague and onward. The painting's melancholy orbit is reflected in the various characters' ellipses and near misses as they career vertiginously through all kinds of space: physical, political, emotional and metaphysical. What emerges is a vision of humanity adrift in history, and a world in a state of disintegration.