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Teleportation Accident : A Novel by Ned Beauman (2013, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-101620400227
ISBN-139781620400227
eBay Product ID (ePID)117228686
Product Key Features
Book TitleTeleportation Accident : a Novel
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Historical, Science Fiction / Humorous
Publication Year2013
GenreFiction
AuthorNed Beauman
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2012-038374
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ReviewsBrilliant... If there was ever any worry that [Beauman] might have crammed all his ideas into his first book, the prize-winning Boxer, Beetle , this makes it clear he kept a secret bunker of his best ones aside., The oversized, exuberant, and farcical plot of The Teleportation Accident is more entertaining than any summary can convey... [Beauman] has the knack for populating his tale with absurd secondary characters, spinning seemingly minor details into long-running jokes, and for placing his protagonist into precarious, comically rich scrapes. The result is rewarding; there are no such thing as pointless digressions in The Teleportation Accident , just the rollicking tale of a hapless Loeser following his heart., " Brilliant... If there was ever any worry that [Beauman] might have crammed all his ideas into his first book, the prize-winning Boxer, Beetle , this makes it clear he kept a secret bunker of his best ones aside." - Joe Dunthorne, The Guardian, Bizarre, original, and satisfying... [Beauman is] a special talent... He takes the sort of risks that writers under 30 should take, but rarely do., A glorious, over-the-top production, crackling with inventive wit and seething with pitchy humour . . . It's as if the English tradition of humorous novels (PG Wodehouse, Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh) and American comic fiction (Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth) have had their molecules recombined . . . A beguiling success., Stylistically radical... Virtuosic... An unquestionably brilliant novel, ribald and wise in equal measure... Witty and sometimes deeply moving., Funny and startlingly inventive... Beauman is undoubtedly a writer of prodigious talent, and there are enough ideas [here]... to fill myriad lesser novels., There is so much going on in this truly bizarre novel--everything from slapstick to noir to steampunk--that discombobulated readers may feel as though they've fallen down a narrative wormhole. But what a wormhole! ... Brilliant., Endlessly witty and furiously inventive, Ned Beauman's second novel... consolidates [his] stature as a formidably accomplished writer... Beauman flaunts an almost indecently pleasurable way with words as he piles on outrageous developments... This [is a] dazzling entertainment. It's rare for a book to stimulate the brain cells and the funny bone with equal gusto, but Beauman has a knack for embedding trenchant philosophical blasts in punch lines... You laugh, then you flinch. On the evidence of his first novel, Boxer Beetle, and now this brilliantly clever and covertly humane book, Beauman promises to keep us laughing and flinching for years to come., Brilliantly written... A confounding sci-fi-noir-comedy mashup overstuffed with astute social observations, high-brow literary allusions, stupendous Pynchonian names and prose so odd and marvelous that every few pages I had to stop and reread a passage., "Brilliant... If there was ever any worry that [Beauman] might have crammed all his ideas into his first book, the prize-winning Boxer, Beetle , this makes it clear he kept a secret bunker of his best ones aside." Joe Dunthorne, The Guardian "Inspired... Beauman has an unflagging imagination and an indefatigable gift for comedy." - Publishers Weekly "Funny and startlingly inventive... Beauman is undoubtedly a writer of prodigious talent, and there are enough ideas [here]... to fill myriad lesser novels." The Financial Times "There is so much going on in this truly bizarre novel-everything from slapstick to noir to steampunk-that discombobulated readers may feel as though they've fallen down a narrative wormhole. But what a wormhole! ... Brilliant." - Bill Ott, Booklist (starred review) "[A] pyrotechnical... violently clever... highly cerebral… frantically entertaining pasteboard extravaganza… Extraordinary." The Sunday Times "Popping with ideas, fizzing with vitality, and great fun." The Independent on Sunday "Stylistically radical... Virtuosic... An unquestionably brilliant novel, ribald and wise in equal measure... Witty and sometimes deeply moving." Times Literary Supplement "A glorious, over-the-top production, crackling with inventive wit and seething with pitchy humour . . . It's as if the English tradition of humorous novels (PG Wodehouse, Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh) and American comic fiction (Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth) have had their molecules recombined . . . A beguiling success." - The Scotsman "If you care about contemporary fiction, you must read this." - Tatler, [A] pyrotechnical... violently clever... highly cerebral... frantically entertaining pasteboard extravaganza... Extraordinary., "Gobsmackingly clever." - Vanity Fair "Brilliant... If there was ever any worry that [Beauman] might have crammed all his ideas into his first book, the prize-winning Boxer, Beetle , this makes it clear he kept a secret bunker of his best ones aside." Joe Dunthorne, The Guardian "Fiendishly clever... This fizzy novel is a great time machine all its own, jumping between the Renaissance and the future, flirting with noir, sci-fi, and romance, and skewering the 'same empty people going to the same empty parties' along the way. Every generation gets the hipster satire it deserves. But this one''s for every generation. Grade: A"- Melissa Maerz, Entertainment Weekly "Inspired... Beauman has an unflagging imagination and an indefatigable gift for comedy." - Publishers Weekly "Funny and startlingly inventive... Beauman is undoubtedly a writer of prodigious talent, and there are enough ideas [here]... to fill myriad lesser novels." The Financial Times "There is so much going on in this truly bizarre novel-everything from slapstick to noir to steampunk-that discombobulated readers may feel as though they've fallen down a narrative wormhole. But what a wormhole! ... Brilliant." - Bill Ott, Booklist (starred review) "Incredibly intelligent, fantastically distracted... You won't read a more memorable novel about sex, obsession and the sticky stuff of science fiction this year, if ever....Profoundly funny, and on the sentence level, simply exhilarating." - Tor.com "The oversized, exuberant, and farcical plot of The Teleportation Accident is more entertaining than any summary can convey... [Beauman] has the knack for populating his tale with absurd secondary characters, spinning seemingly minor details into long-running jokes, and for placing his protagonist into precarious, comically rich scrapes. The result is rewarding; there are no such thing as pointless digressions in The Teleportation Accident , just the rollicking tale of a hapless Loeser following his heart." - Daily Beast "Bizarre, original, and satisfying... [Beauman is] a special talent... He takes the sort of risks that writers under 30 should take, but rarely do."- BookPage "Beauman has created a wacky mash-up of a hefty number of genres -- historical fiction, noir, slapstick, science fiction and satire -- populated by sinners, ghouls and Caltech physicists and set mainly in the pre-World War II period. And, yes, there is a teleportation device." - Star-Telegram (Fort Worth) "[A] pyrotechnical... violently clever... highly cerebral… frantically entertaining pasteboard extravaganza… Extraordinary." The Sunday Times "Popping with ideas, fizzing with vitality, and great fun." The Independent on Sunday "Stylistically radical... Virtuosic... An unquestionably brilliant novel, ribald and wise in equal measure... Witty and sometimes deeply moving." Times Literary Supplement "A glorious, over-the-top production, crackling with inventive wit and seething with pitchy humour . . . It's as if the English tradition of humorous novels (PG Wodehouse, Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh) and American comic fiction (Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth) have had their molecules recombined . . . A beguiling success." - The Scotsman "If you care about contemporary fiction, you must read this." - Tatler, The Teleportation Accident is a singular novel -- singularly clever, singularly audacious, singularly strange--from a singular, and almost recklessly gifted, young writer.|9781620400227|, Incredibly intelligent, fantastically distracted... You won't read a more memorable novel about sex, obsession and the sticky stuff of science fiction this year, if ever....Profoundly funny, and on the sentence level, simply exhilarating., The Teleportation Accident is a singular novel -- singularly clever, singularly audacious, singularly strange--from a singular, and almost recklessly gifted, young writer., Fiendishly clever... This fizzy novel is a great time machine all its own, jumping between the Renaissance and the future, flirting with noir, sci-fi, and romance, and skewering the 'same empty people going to the same empty parties' along the way. Every generation gets the hipster satire it deserves. But this one's for every generation. Grade: A, Beauman has created a wacky mash-up of a hefty number of genres -- historical fiction, noir, slapstick, science fiction and satire -- populated by sinners, ghouls and Caltech physicists and set mainly in the pre-World War II period. And, yes, there is a teleportation device., As wild a cast of eccentrics and madmen, scammers and venal self-servers, hapless saps and trodden-down dreamers, as you have seen since the heyday of J. P. Donleavy or Evelyn Waugh... Teleporting directly into the ranks of such mythomaniacal jesters as Nick Sagan and Christopher Moore, Ned Beauman kicks any sophomore qualms to the curb.
SynopsisLong-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, The Teleportation Accident is a hilarious sci-fi noir about sex, Satan, and teleportation devices., Long-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, The Teleportation Accident is a hilarious sci-fi noir about sex, Satan, and teleportation devices. When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen. If you're living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isn't. But that's no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal misfortunes will push him from the experimental theaters of Berlin to the absinthe bars of Paris to the physics laboratories of Los Angeles, trying all the while to solve two mysteries: Was it really a deal with Satan that claimed the life of his hero, Renaissance set designer Adriano Lavicini, creator of the so-called Teleportation Device? And why is it that a handsome, clever, modest guy like him can't--just once in a while--get himself laid? Ned Bauman has crafted 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.
LC Classification NumberPR6102.E225T35 2013
