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Tom McCarthy (born 1969) is an English writer and artist. His debut novel , Remainder , was published in 2005. McCarthy has twice been nominated for the Man Booker , and was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize by Yale University in 2013. [1]
Tom McCarthy, whose third novel, C (2010), was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, has been hailed as one of the most brilliant and original writers of his generation. However, it took the publishing world some time to recognise his talent and take a chance on publishing this innovative and experimental new writer.
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- Alma Books, Jonathan Cape Ltd, Vintage
Tom McCarthy. Tom McCarthy — “English fiction’s new laureate of disappointment” (Time Out, September 2007) — is a writer and artist. He was born in 1969 and lives in a tower-block in London. Tom grew up in Greenwich, south London, and studied English at New College, Oxford.
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Other books include Relationships of Sympathy: The Writer and the Reader in British Romanticism. Raised as a straightforward meat-eating Catholic, since his early 20s Tom has chosen a more complicated path to spiritual and physical well-being. He’s been vegan since the early 2000s and is an avid amateur chef and baker.
Tom McCarthy. Writer: The Station Agent. Tom McCarthy is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for direct and write The Station Agent (2003), The Visitor (2007), Win Win (2011), and Spotlight (2015), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and was nominated for Best Director.
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Nov 2, 2021 · The English writer Tom McCarthy has been waging a one-man war against literary realism, or as he sometimes calls it, “the middlebrow commercial novel,” for coming on 20 years now ...
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Tom McCarthy has 98 books on Goodreads with 55730 ratings. Tom McCarthy’s most popular book is Remainder.
