The Teleportation Accident
A Novel
by Ned Beauman
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Pub Date Feb 26 2013 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Bloomsbury | Bloomsbury USA
Description
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.
Advance Praise
Praise from the UK for The Teleportation Accident:
"Terrific... 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 Guardian
"Popping with ideas, fizzing with vitality, and great fun." —The Independent on Sunday"A glorious, over-the-top production, crackling with inventive wit and seething with pitchy humour... A beguiling success." —The Scotsman
"If you care about contemporary fiction, you must read this." —Tatler
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781620400227 |
| PRICE | $25.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 368 |
