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The Teleportation Accident
The Teleportation Accident
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This dazzlingly ambitious, furiously original and deftly offensive new novel from author of the acclaimed Boxer Beetle follows Egon Loeser - avant garde theatre set designer; sex-starved, lust-infused egotist; and all-round total prick. Beginning in 1930s Berlin and spanning the grubbiness and glamour of pre-War Paris and L.A., we follow Loeser's obsessive quest to re-create the perfect stage trick, the great Lavacini's Extraordinary Mechanism for the Almost Instantaneous Transport of Persons from Place to Place (better known as the Teleportation Device) - and to screw the perfect woman, one Adele Hitler.
Aside from Loeser's olympically dull friends, we'll meet Scramsfield, a dissembling Bostonian recovering from a botched suicide pact; Colonel Gorge, who suffers from a bizarre condition known as ontological agnosia; and Bailey, a distinguished physicist working on a Teleportation Device of a different, and much more sinister, nature.
The Teleportation Accident is a stunningly inventive novel about evasion and distraction; love, lust, sex and desire; transport, teleportation and time-travel; and the chilling disconnect between imagination and reality.
BY THE TIME YOU FINISH READING THIS YOU MAY BE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
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Inventive, humorous novel exploring love, science, and identity.
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If you're craving a story that's wildly original and full of sharp wit, The Teleportation Accident will delight you. It’s a playful yet profound exploration of obsession, desire, and the blurry lines between imagination and reality, all woven through a fascinating international setting. Fans of inventive humor and bold characters will find this book an intriguing journey.