Ron Nurwisah of Torontoist.com says, “A man is put into a coma by a falling object. He goes on to receive an 8 million pound settlement and with his newfound wealth obsessively tries to recreate a scene that he may have once witnessed. This is the premise for Tom McCarthy’s Remainder, possibly one of the most imaginative novels to come out of the UK in the last few years.” Read his full interview.

Chris at Spikemagazine.com says, “It’s not often I read an entire novel in one sitting, but I did with Tom McCarthy’s Remainder. Whether that’s a testament to the gravity of my insomnia last night or Tom McCarthy’s novel, I’m not sure, but Remainder certainly didn’t put me to sleep.” Read more.

Keir at KeirWilmut.com says,
“The nice people at Raincoast Books sent me a copy of Remainder, and asked if I’d review it. What remains of a person after a near-fatal trauma? What does it mean to be authentic? These are two of the questions posed by Tom McCarthy’s first novel, Remainder.” Read Keir’s review.

Janelle at Eclectic Closet says,
“Tom McCarthy’s artistic eye is apparent in Remainder, translating into vividly described settings. The setting is as much a character as our nameless narrator. Readers are immersed in the setting which is invoked at such a visceral level that one feels the sunbeam warming one’s skin as the narrator lays in a sunbeam and smell the liver wafting through the ventilation system.” Read Janelle’s review.

Raincoast publicist Dan also had a chance to talk to Tom McCarthy. Here’s his 3-part interview.

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Scotchneat.ca says,
“What I liked most: the little moments of description where the author captures precisely the kind of internal loops that we’ve all experienced, such as when he’s on the way to the airport to pick up a friend and realizes he forgot the flight information.” A quote from the book is included then, “It seems like a quotidien passage to pick, but I think McCarthy has an ear (eye?) for the jetsam of the human mind that reminds me a bit of Don DeLillo. That austere and somehow darkly funny insight of how the mind goes, that we can all recognize in ourselves. All the more alarming when it plays out the way it does. The passages where he describes what rehab is like become the internal workings of his pet projects: break everything down to its constituent parts and then execute them (well, maybe literally, even).” Read Scotchneat.ca’s review.