The Lost Time Accidents
- 2 Mar 2017
- 9781847672322
- £8.99
- 512 pp
- 129×198mm
- 2 Jun 2016
- 9780857863539
- £7.19
- 512 pp
In a few words
This year’s Big American Novel is a high-concept epic that races through one family’s experience of the twentieth century
In a few words
This year’s Big American Novel is a high-concept epic that races through one family’s experience of the twentieth century
A sprawling phantasmagoria which keeps us in delicious suspense . . . It's provocative, indulgent and fun . . . An imaginative and philosophical singularity of a novel
This is literature as high-wire act without the net; epic in scale, even bigger in heart
Marlon James
A sprawling phantasmagoria which keeps us in delicious suspense . . . It's provocative, indulgent and fun . . . An imaginative and philosophical singularity of a novel
This is literature as high-wire act without the net; epic in scale, even bigger in heart
Marlon James
More about
the book
The Lost Time Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.
Haunted by a failed love affair and the darkest of family secrets, Waldemar ‘Waldy’ Tolliver wakes one morning to discover that he has been exiled from the flow of time. The world continues to turn, and Waldy is desperate to find his way back.
In his ambitious and fiercely inventive new novel, John Wray takes us from turn-of-the-century Viennese salons buzzing with rumours about Einstein’s radical new theory to the death camps of the Second World War, from the golden age of post-war pulp science fiction to a startling discovery in a modern-day Manhattan apartment packed to the ceiling with artefacts of contemporary life.
More about
the book
The Lost Time Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.
Haunted by a failed love affair and the darkest of family secrets, Waldemar ‘Waldy’ Tolliver wakes one morning to discover that he has been exiled from the flow of time. The world continues to turn, and Waldy is desperate to find his way back.
In his ambitious and fiercely inventive new novel, John Wray takes us from turn-of-the-century Viennese salons buzzing with rumours about Einstein’s radical new theory to the death camps of the Second World War, from the golden age of post-war pulp science fiction to a startling discovery in a modern-day Manhattan apartment packed to the ceiling with artefacts of contemporary life.
Startlingly accomplished
A science fiction novel about time-travel, filled with unabashedly zany characters . . . a highly enjoyable book
John Wray gets his Calvino on, his Mitchell on, his Murakami on, and even his Joyce on in this spectacular rattlebag of a novel . . . Who says the novel is dead? Just smash the clocks and open this novel
Colum Mccann
With this darkly playful chronicle of three generations of crackpots and criminals, losers and visionaries, John Wray has written a book of eerie magic: Waldy Tolliver's love letter to the mysterious Mrs. Haven is a secret love letter to fiction itself. A mischievous epic, luminous and strange
Kiran Desai
A science fiction novel about time-travel, filled with unabashedly zany characters . . . a highly enjoyable book
Startlingly accomplished
John Wray gets his Calvino on, his Mitchell on, his Murakami on, and even his Joyce on in this spectacular rattlebag of a novel . . . Who says the novel is dead? Just smash the clocks and open this novel
Colum Mccann
With this darkly playful chronicle of three generations of crackpots and criminals, losers and visionaries, John Wray has written a book of eerie magic: Waldy Tolliver's love letter to the mysterious Mrs. Haven is a secret love letter to fiction itself. A mischievous epic, luminous and strange
Kiran Desai
John Wray
View profileJohn Wray is the author of Lowboy, Canaan’s Tongue,The Right Hand of Sleep and The Lost Time Accidents. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and a Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, he was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists in 2007. A citizen of both the United States and Austria, he lives in New York City.
John Wray
View profileJohn Wray is the author of Lowboy, Canaan’s Tongue,The Right Hand of Sleep and The Lost Time Accidents. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and a Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, he was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists in 2007. A citizen of both the United States and Austria, he lives in New York City.
