# Satin Island

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- Authors: [Tom McCarthy](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-mccarthy)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2015-03-12
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

U. is a 'corporate anthropologist' who, while working on a giant, epoch-defining project no one really understands, is also tasked with writing the Great Report on our society. But instead, U. spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic jams, roller-blade processions. Is there a secret logic holding all these images together? Once cracked, will it unlock the master-meaning of our era? Might it have something to do with the dead parachutists in the news? Perhaps; perhaps not.

## Editions

### Satin Island

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9954-699-3
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2016-03-24
- Language: en_GB

### Satin Island

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-0773-962-9
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2016-01-26
- Language: en_US

### Satin Island

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 6 h 2 min
- ISBN: 978-14-7354-502-1
- Published: 2015-09-17
- Language: en_GB

### Satin Island

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4644-408-5
- Published: 2015-03-12
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Satin Island](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-mccarthy/de/satin-island) (de_DE)