Alex Garland works words the way a spider spins webs. Interweaving disparate story lines, he builds suspenseful narrative tapestries out of seemingly unrelated events. An expertly hewn page-turne. ripping.
Alex Garland works words the way a spider spins webs. As thoroughly assured a performance as The Beac. r.
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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. An intricately woven, suspenseful novel of psychological and political intrigue, The Tesseract follows the interlocking fates of three sets of characters in the Philippines: gangsters in a chase through the streets of Manila; a middle-class mother putting her children to bed in the suburbs and remembering her first love; and a couple of street kids and the wealthy psychiatrist who is studying their dreams. Alex Garland demonstrates the range of his extraordinary talents as a novelist in this national bestseller.
The Tesseract is a novel by Alex Garland. It was initially published by Viking Press in 1998. The story intertwines the lives of Manila gangsters, mothers and street children. The novel chronicles numerous characters in non-linear storylines and explores themes of love, fate, violence, power, and choices. It is Garland's second novel. The term 'tesseract' is used for the three-dimensional net of the four-dimensional hypercube rather than the hypercube itself.
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Alex Garland's national (and international) bestseller, The Beach, received . With The Tesseract, Garland fulfills the prediction Kazuo Ishiguro made last.
Alex Garland's national (and international) bestseller, The Beach, received extraordinary praise here and throughout Europe and was the winner of Britain's prestigious Betty Trask Award. The Washington Post called The Beach "a book that moves with the kind of speed and grace many older writers can only day-dream about. With The Tesseract, Garland fulfills the prediction Kazuo Ishiguro made last year: "The Beach will be remembered down the years as our first glimpse of a huge literary talent.
Teroy, you are lucky that you are not a Japanese. Teroy looked puzzled. If you were a Japanese, you would be dead no. .Suicide y your own sword, for shame that you made Mr. Sean spend even five minutes in this cockroach-infested carcass of a hotel. Sir, I can only apologize again. My point is that you can do more than apologize. But I suppose it is a good thing that the Filipinos are not like the Japanese
In The Tesseract, set in muggy, scary Manila, Alex Garland again proves himself the past master of the youth paranoia novel.
The lives of three very different groups of people-gangsters on the streets of Manila, middle-class suburban families, and a group of street children and the psychologist studying them-intertwine in an intricately woven tale, set in the Philippines, that spans three generations.
What really makes THE TESSERACT so gripping is the author's dazzling performance as a storyteller-not the bloody climaxes per se but.
I know better than to expect much. The Tesseract is a story in three parts. the primary action covers about a 60-minute window on the streets of Manila where a British seaman and a Filipino gangster are set to hash out protection payment issues. The culmination of this meeting brings together the characters from the other two segments of the story, but not before the narrative dissolves into back stories for both.
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