Maxwell's Demon

ISBN: 0802149200

Author: Hall, Steven

Condition: New

Fourteen years after the monumental publication of the international bestseller The Raw Shark Texts, Maxwells Demon heralds the triumphant return of Granta Best Young British Novelist Steven Hall.Thomas Quinn is having a hard time. A failed novelist, hes stuck writing short stories and audio scripts for other peoples characters. His wife, Imogen, is working on a remote island halfway around the world, and talking to her over the webcam isnt the same. The bills are piling up, the dirty dishes are stacking in the sink, and the whole world seems to be hurtling towards entropic collapse. Then he gets a voicemail from his father, who has been dead for seven years.Thomass relationship with Stanley Quinn-a world-famous writer and erstwhile absent father-was always shaky, not least because Stanley always seemed to prefer his enigmatic assistant and protégé Andrew Black to his own son. Yet after Black published his first book, Cupids Engine, which went on to sell over a million copies, he disappeared completely. Now strange things are happening to Thomas, and he cant help but wonder if Black is tugging at the seams of his world behind the scenes.Absurdly brilliant, wildly entertaining, and utterly mind-bending, Maxwells Demon triumphantly excavates the ways we construct meaning in a world where chaotic collapse looms closer every day.