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Long listed for the Man Booker Prize 2012
The Teleportation Accident
Ned Beauman
ISBN : 9780340998434
Subject : Fiction - General & Literary
Binding : Paperback
Format : Trade Paperback
Imprint : Hodder & Stoughton/Sceptre
Page Extent : 368
UK Price : £13.99
Special Indian Price: Rs. 695
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Selling Points:
· Long listed For The 2012 Man Booker Prize
· Fantastically inventive, ingenious and funny new novel from author of the acclaimed Boxer Beetle.
· Ned Beauman's debut novel, Boxer, Beetle, was shortlisted for the Guardian first book award and the Desmond Elliot Prize, and won the Jewish Book Council's Outstanding Fiction Award and the UK Writers' Guild Award in 2011.
· Like Michael Chabon, Beauman combines a fast-moving plot with dazzling language and lots of ideas.
· "Funny, scandalous, decadent and erudite, The Teleportation Accident is a hugely enjoyable madness with flavours of Pynchon, Huysmans and Jerome K. Jerome." Nick Harkaway
Reviews
· 'If you care about contemporary writing, you must read this . . . Boxer, Beetle was acclaimed as the most inventive fictional debut in years, buzzing with energy and ideas, and Beauman's second novel keeps up the pace' - Tatler
· 'A glorious, over-the-top production, crackling with inventive wit and seething with pitchy humour . . . A beguiling success . . . Ingenious . . . There is such an easy felicity in Beauman's writing and such a clever, engaging wit . . . that one feels he could write something as much fun every two years. The prospect of which makes me very, very happy indeed.' - Scotsman
· 'He's done it again . . . Beauman does adolescent male lust and anomie with the verve of a young Amis and this is a great romp of a novel, delightful in its inventiveness.' - Prospect
About The Book
Longlisted For The 2012 Man Booker Prize.
The fantastically inventive, ingenious and hilarious new novel from Ned Beauman, author of the acclaimed and prizewinning Boxer, Beetle.
Egon Loeser’s carnal misfortunes will push him from the experimental theatres of Berlin to the absinthe bars of Paris to the physics laboratories of Los Angeles, trying all the while to solve two mysteries: whether it was really a deal with Satan that claimed the life of his hero, the great Renaissance stage designer Adriano Lavicini; and why a handsome, clever, charming, modest guy like him can't, just once in a while, get himself laid.
From the author of the acclaimed Boxer, Beetle comes a historical novel that doesn't know what year it is; a noir novel that turns all the lights on; a romance novel that arrives drunk to dinner; a science fiction novel that can't remember what 'isotope' means; a stunningly inventive, exceptionally funny, dangerously unsteady and (largely) coherent novel about sex, violence, space, time, and how the best way to deal with history is to ignore it.
About The Author
Ned Beauman was born in 1985 and lives in London. He has written for Dazed & Confused, Another and the Guardian. His debut novel, Boxer, Beetle was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Desmond Elliot Prize, and won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Fiction Book. Ned Beauman was picked by The Culture Show as one of the 12 Best New British Writers in 2011. His second novel, The Teleportation Accident is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012.
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