Men in Space

Men in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism. It follows an oddball cast dissolute bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent, and a stranded astronaut as they chase a stolen painting from Sofia to Prague and onward. Planting the themes that McCarthy s later works develop, here McCarthy questions the meaning of all kinds of space physical, political, emotional, and metaphysical as reflected in the characters various disconnections. What emerges is a vision of humanity adrift in history, and a world in a state of disintegration...