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The station agent [videorecording] / by Cannavale, Bobby.(CARDINAL)471569; Clarkson, Patricia.(CARDINAL)348469; Dinklage, Peter.(CARDINAL)357169; McCarthy, Tom,1969-;
Peter Dinklage, Bobby Cannavale, Patricia Clarkson, Paul Benjamin, Josh Pais.When the only friend of a man with dwarfism dies, he moves to rural New Jersey and meets a struggling artist and friendly hot dog vendor despite his desires to be alone.MPAA rating: R.DVD.
Subjects: Comedy films; Feature films; Fiction films; Dwarfs (Persons); Friendship;
© 2012., Echo Bridge Home Entertainment,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The station agent [videorecording] / by Benjamin, Paul.(CARDINAL)780459; Blankfort, Jase.; Cannavale, Bobby.(CARDINAL)471569; Clarkson, Patricia.(CARDINAL)348469; Dinklage, Peter.(CARDINAL)357169; May, Robert.(CARDINAL)505385; McCarthy, Tom,1966-ausdrt(CARDINAL)787267; McCarthy, Tom,1969 May 22-(CARDINAL)344743; McCarthy, Tom,1969-; Skalski, Mary Jane.; Trask, Stephen.(CARDINAL)841406; Tucker, Kathryn,1981-; Tucker, Kathryn.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)340297; Miramax Films.(CARDINAL)436238; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm); Next Wednesday (Firm); Senart Films (Firm)(CARDINAL)848607; SenArt Films (Firm)(CARDINAL)848607; Touchstone Home Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)436931;
Stephen Trask, original music ; Jeanne Dupont, costume designer ; Oliver Bokelberg, director of photography.Patricia Clarkson, Peter Dinklage, Paul Benjamin, Jase Blankfort.A young man inherits a train station in rural New Jersey and moves there for a life of quiet solitude. He soon finds friendships and a sense of belonging that he never expected, and never thought he wanted.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Country life; Dwarfs (Persons); Films for the hearing impaired.; Friendship;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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Remainder / by McCarthy, Tom,1969 May 22-(CARDINAL)344743;
Subjects: Fiction.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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C / by McCarthy, Tom,1969 May 22-(CARDINAL)344743;
"Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world. After a fling with a nurse at a Bohemian spa, Serge serves in World War I as a radio operator for reconnaissance planes. When his plane is shot down, Serge is taken to a German prison camp, from which he escapes. Back in London, he's recruited for a mission to Cairo on behalf of the shadowy Empire Wireless Chain. All of which eventually carries Serge to a fitful, and perhaps fateful, climax at the bottom of an Egyptian tomb..."--Jacket.
Subjects: Epic fiction.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Technology;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The making of incarnation / by McCarthy, Tom,1969 May 22-author.(CARDINAL)344743;
"Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? Where's our fucking airplane? What's inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it? Deep within the archives of time-and-motion pioneer Lillian Gilbreth lies a secret. Famous for producing solid light-tracks that captured the path of workers' movements, Gilbreth helped birth the era of mass observation and big data. But did she also, as her broken correspondence with a young Soviet physicist suggests, discover in her final days a "perfect" movement, one that would "change everything"? An international hunt begins for the one box missing from her records, and we follow contemporary motion-capture consultant Mark Phocan, as well as his collaborators and shadowy antagonists, across geopolitical fault lines and through strata of personal and collective history. Meanwhile, work is under way on the blockbuster movie Incarnation, an epic space tragedy. As McCarthy peers through the screen, or veil, of technological modernity to reveal the underlying symbolic structures of human experience, The Making of Incarnation weaves a set of stories one inside the other, rings within rings, a perpetual motion machine"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Fiction.; Novels.; Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, 1878-1972; Copyright; Human mechanics; Human-machine systems; Intellectual property; Motion pictures; Motion study; Perpetual motion; Physicists; Time study;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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Satin Island : a novel / by McCarthy, Tom,1969 May 22-author.(CARDINAL)344743;
"When we first meet U., the narrator of SATIN ISLAND, he is sitting in the airport at Turin, caught in a delay caused by a rogue airplane. Like everyone else in the waiting area, he is sifting through airport pages on his laptop, and then through news sites, social pages, corridors of trivia...until he happens to stumble on information about an image on a famous shroud in Turin. The image itself isn't even visible on the shroud; it only emerged when some amateur photographer looked at the negative of a shot he'd taken and saw the figure--Christ's body supine after crucifixion. Only in the negative: the negative became a positive. A few decades later when the shroud was radiocarbon dated, it turned out to come from no later than the mid-thirteenth century. But that didn't trouble the believers. Things like that never do. A "corporate ethnographer," U. is tasked with writing the Great Report. Yet at every turn, U. finds himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in a buffer zone and wandering through a crowd of apparitions. Meanwhile, Madison, the woman he is seeing, becomes increasingly elusive, much like the particulars in the case of the recent, highly-publicized parachutist's death, with which U. is obsessed. He also develops a perverse interest in oil spills, spending great amounts of time watching loops of clean up videos. As U. begins to wonder if perhaps the Great Report will remain a shapeless, oozing plasma, his senses are reawakened by an ominous dream of an apocalyptic cityscape. SATIN ISLAND is a novel that captures the way we experience the world today, our efforts to find meaning, to stay awake, and discern the narratives we think of as our lives"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Mind and reality;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Typewriters, bombs, jellyfish : essays / by McCarthy, Tom,1969 May 22-author.(CARDINAL)344743;
"Essays on literature, pop culture, and more from the cult novelist and critic Tom McCarthy Fifteen brilliant essays written over as many years provide a map of the sensibility and critical intelligence of Tom McCarthy, one of the most original and challenging novelists at work today. Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish explores a wide range of subjects, from the weather considered as a form of media, to the paintings of Gerhard Richter and the movies of David Lynch, to Patty Hearst as revolutionary sex goddess, to the still-radical implications of established masterpieces such as Ulysses (how do you write after it?), Tristram Shandy, and the unsung junky genius Alexander Trocchi's darkly beautiful Cain's Book. The longer "Recessional" examines the place of time in writing--how writing makes a new time of its own, a time apart from institutional time--while the startling "Nothing Will Have Taken Place" moves from Mallarme and Don DeLillo to the ball mastery of Zidane to look at how art, whether that of a poet, novelist, or athlete, destroys given codes of meaning and behavior, returning them to play. Certain points of reference recur with dreamlike insistence--among them the artist Ed Ruscha's Royal Road Test, a photographic documentation of the roadside debris of a Royal typewriter hurled from the window of a traveling car; the great blooms of jellyfish that are filling the oceans and gumming up the machinery of commerce and military domination--and the question throughout is: How can art explode the restraining conventions of so-called realism, whether aesthetic or political, to engage in the active reinvention of the world?"--
Subjects: Essays.; Criticism.; English essays.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Men in space / by McCarthy, Tom,1969 May 22-author.(CARDINAL)344743; Critchley, Simon,1960-writer of afterword.(CARDINAL)351139;
"The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthy--acclaimed author of Remainder and C-- Men in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism. It follows an oddball cast--dissolute bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent, and a stranded astronaut--as they chase a stolen painting from Sofia to Prague and onward. Planting the themes that McCarthy's later works develop, here McCarthy questions the meaning of all kinds of space--physical, political, emotional, and metaphysical--as reflected in the characters' various disconnections. What emerges is a vision of humanity adrift in history, and a world in a state of disintegration." --
Subjects: Novels.; Political refugees; Soccer referees; Police; Astronauts; Icons; Art thefts; Bohemianism; Postmodernism; Police.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The great new wonderful [videorecording] / by Leiner, Danny.; Gyllenhaal, Maggie,1977-; McCarthy, Tom,1969 May 22-(CARDINAL)344743; Greer, Judy,1975-(CARDINAL)340632;
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tom McCarthy, Judy Greer.A group of New Yorkers struggle to continue with their daily lives on the first anniversary of the September 11th attacks.MPAA rating: R.DVD.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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The recognitions / by Gaddis, William,1922-1998,author.(CARDINAL)519066; Gass, William H.,1924-2017,writer of afterword.(CARDINAL)145383; McCarthy, Tom,1969 May 22-writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)344743;
"Wyatt Gwyon forges not from larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals"- pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and the fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch- cannot even recognize. First published in 1955, this lively, witty, and labyrinthine novel stands among the very best of our time"--
Subjects: Fiction.; Art forgers; Art; Artists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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