# Satin Island

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- Book: [Satin Island](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-mccarthy/satin-island) ([Satin Island.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-mccarthy/satin-island.md))
- Authors: [Tom McCarthy](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-mccarthy)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9954-699-3
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2016-03-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.