{"product_id":"the-making-of-incarnation-9780593314050","title":"The Making of Incarnation","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Booker Prize-nominated author of \u003ci\u003eRemainder\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSatin Island\u003c\/i\u003e, a wide-screen odyssey through the medical labs, computer graphics studios, military research centers, and other dark zones where the frontiers of potential--to cure, kill, understand, or entertain--are constantly tested and refined.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? Where's our fucking airplane? What's inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eDeep within the archives of time-and-motion pioneer Lillian Gilbreth lies a secret. Famous for producing solid light-tracks that captured the path of workers' movements, Gilbreth helped birth the era of mass observation and big data. But did she also, as her broken correspondence with a young Soviet physicist suggests, discover in her final days a \"perfect\" movement, one that would \"change everything\"? An international hunt begins for the one box missing from her records, and we follow contemporary motion-capture consultant Mark Phocan, as well as his collaborators and shadowy antagonists, across geopolitical fault lines and through strata of personal and collective history. Meanwhile, work is under way on the blockbuster movie \u003ci\u003eIncarnation, \u003c\/i\u003e an epic space tragedy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Tom McCarthy peers through the screen, or veil, of technological modernity to reveal the underlying symbolic structures of human experience, \u003ci\u003eThe Making of Incarnation\u003c\/i\u003e weaves a set of stories, one inside the other, rings within rings, a perpetual motion machine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTOM MCCARTHY's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and adapted for cinema, theater, and radio. His novel, \u003ci\u003eC, \u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Walter Scott Prize, and the European Literature Prize; his fourth, \u003ci\u003eSatin Island, \u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize by Yale University. McCarthy is also the author of the study \u003ci\u003eTintin and the Secret of Literature, \u003c\/i\u003e and the essay collection \u003ci\u003eTypewriters, Bombs, and Jellyfish.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Berlin.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50509294076178,"sku":"9780593314050","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dcee5fd3-9672-41c8-a585-7759ad3c3f2c.jpg?v=1730894542","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-making-of-incarnation-9780593314050","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}