Brilliance

Author:   Anthony McCarten
Publisher:   Hawthorne Books
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9780986000751


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   11 June 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Anthony McCarten
Publisher:   Hawthorne Books
Imprint:   Hawthorne Books
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9780986000751


ISBN 10:   0986000752
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   11 June 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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<br>PRAISE FOR ANTHONY MCCARTEN'S WORK: <br>One of New Zealand's most exciting literary exports. -- International Herald Tribune <br>A master storyteller. -- FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) <p>PRAISE FOR BRILLIANCE: <br>Anthony McCarten's sharp, dazzling novel about the inventors and millionaires who colluded to bring electric light to the world is more than a great, entertaining read--it's also a sly, contemporary take on the complicated often corrupting effect of money, marketing, and hype on creativity. -- Karen Karbo, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel <br>A truly remarkable book! -- Historical Novel Society, UK <br>McCarten's Lively prose style is pleasure to read. -- The Times Literary Supplement <br>You can be sure that Brilliance will appear at a screen near you. In the meantime, read. -- E&T Magazine <br>A great tale, well written and...dare I say it, illuminating. -- New Zealand Listener <br>I really, really enjoyed this. It's a new novel from author Anthony McCarten and the first of his I've read. It's beautifully written, witty and clever and the historical element gives us a pretty decent portrait of the current economic times. It's clever, it's a page-turner, an easy read with language and prose that oozes authenticity and descriptions that delight and amuse... -- What Sarah Reads <br>Did inventor Thomas Edison and banker J.P. Morgan first meet in a bath in Saratoga Springs? Did Morgan possess, indeed cultivate 'a postulated, bulbous magma of warty tissue with the texture of a cauliflower' instead of a nose? Yes and yes if New Zealand novelist, playwright and film director Anthony McCarten's affably ironic new novel is to be believed. His use of such eloquent details and imaginings add pleasing texture to the story - a parable on Wall Street's tendency to co-opt and corrupt idealism - notably in the case of Edison, whose wives used Morse Code to counter his deafness; who existed on a mono-diet of milk; and w


<br>PRAISE FOR ANTHONY MCCARTEN'S WORK: <br>One of New Zealand's most exciting literary exports. -- International Herald Tribune <br>A master storyteller. -- FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) <p>PRAISE FOR BRILLIANCE <br>Anthony McCarten's sharp, dazzling novel about the inventors and millionaires who colluded to bring electric light to the world is more than a great, entertaining read--it's also a sly, contemporary take on the complicated often corrupting effect of money, marketing, and hype on creativity. -- Karen Karbo, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel <br>A truly remarkable book! -- Historical Novel Society, UK <br>McCarten's Lively prose style is pleasure to read. -- The Times Literary Supplement <br>You can be sure that Brilliance will appear at a screen near you. In the meantime, read. -- E&T Magazine <br>A great tale, well written and...dare I say it, illuminating. -- New Zealand Listener <br>I really, really enjoyed this. It's a new novel from author Anthony McCarten and the first of his I've read. It's beautifully written, witty and clever and the historical element gives us a pretty decent portrait of the current economic times. It's clever, it's a page-turner, an easy read with language and prose that oozes authenticity and descriptions that delight and amuse... -- What Sarah Reads <br>Did inventor Thomas Edison and banker J.P. Morgan first meet in a bath in Saratoga Springs? Did Morgan possess, indeed cultivate 'a postulated, bulbous magma of warty tissue with the texture of a cauliflower' instead of a nose? Yes and yes if New Zealand novelist, playwright and film director Anthony McCarten's affably ironic new novel is to be believed. His use of such eloquent details and imaginings add pleasing texture to the story - a parable on Wall Street's tendency to co-opt and corrupt idealism - notably in the case of Edison, whose wives used Morse Code to counter his deafness; who existed on a mono-diet of milk; andd


<br>PRAISE FOR ANTHONY MCCARTEN'S WORK: <br>One of New Zealand's most exciting literary exports. -- International Herald Tribune <br>A master storyteller. -- FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) <p>PRAISE FOR BRILLIANCE <br>Anthony McCarten's sharp, dazzling novel about the inventors and millionaires who colluded to bring electric light to the world is more than a great, entertaining read--it's also a sly, contemporary take on the complicated often corrupting effect of money, marketing, and hype on creativity. -- Karen Karbo, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel <br>A truly remarkable book! -- Historical Novel Society, UK <br>McCarten's Lively prose style is pleasure to read. -- The Times Literary Supplement <br>You can be sure that Brilliance will appear at a screen near you. In the meantime, read. -- E&T Magazine <br>A great tale, well written and...dare I say it, illuminating. -- New Zealand Listener <br>I really, really enjoyed this. It's a new novel from author Anthony McCarten and the first of his I've read. It's beautifully written, witty and clever and the historical element gives us a pretty decent portrait of the current economic times. It's clever, it's a page-turner, an easy read with language and prose that oozes authenticity and descriptions that delight and amuse... -- What Sarah Reads <br>Did inventor Thomas Edison and banker J.P. Morgan first meet in a bath in Saratoga Springs? Did Morgan possess, indeed cultivate 'a postulated, bulbous magma of warty tissue with the texture of a cauliflower' instead of a nose? Yes and yes if New Zealand novelist, playwright and film director Anthony McCarten's affably ironic new novel is to be believed. His use of such eloquent details and imaginings add pleasing texture to the story - a parable on Wall Street's tendency to co-opt and corrupt idealism - notably in the case of Edison, whose wives used Morse Code to counter his deafness; who existed on a mono-diet of milk; ando


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Anthony McCarten's debut novel, Spinners, won international acclaim, and was followed by The English Harem and the award-winning Death of a Superhero, and Show of Hands, all four books being translated into 14 languages. McCarten has also written 12 stage plays, including the worldwide success Ladies' Night, which won France's Moliere Prize, the Meilleure Piece Comique, in 2001, and Via Satellite, which he adapted into a feature film and directed, premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Also a filmmaker, he has thrice adapted his own plays or novels into feature films, most recently Death Of A Superhero (2011) which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Anthony divides his time between London and Los Angeles.

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