The making of incarnation
McCarthy, Tom, 1969 May 22-2021
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A kaleidoscopic exploration of motion and how the forces that compel and impel us continues to defy capture and understanding. The historical starting point: Lillian Gilbreth, first investigator and architect of time and motion studies , spurred in part by the conundrum of how to raise twelve children (remember Cheaper by the Dozen, the memoir written by her children). The fictional or mythic starting point (one of many): Anthony Garnett's insomnia, and the inevitable sheep-counting he experienced after visiting a sheep farm, the images of sheep he'd observed, prompting in his mind a schematic tracking their movements, unpredictable yet governed by a general drive or aim, the location of one animal at a given moment, the corresponding location of another at the same moment, each linked by lines of transit, switchbacks and detours, lines themselves dictated by the larger flow of the collective mass, as well as operative strings of need, fear, rivalry, yearning, linking Individuals randomly to one another.
The making of incarnation / Tom McCarthy.
McCarthy, Tom, 1969 May 22-, author
London : Jonathan Cape, 2021.©2021
327 pages ; 24 cm.
97817873333079781787333307
823.92
English
466987
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Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - Sci-Fi | MACC | Available |