HEY NOW.
Charlie's unfilmable novel about an impossible movie has a pre-order page on Amazon's U.K. site, and the previously untitled novel NOW HAS A TITLE, and the title is: Antkind.
If Amazon can be believed (and in essence I think it can), the book clocks in at 336 pages and will be published on 6 February, 2020, though I wouldn't be quick to bet my life savings on that date. That's the UK edition, published by 4th Estate, the "literary fiction" imprint of Harper Collins. (Franzen, Proulx, Chabon and Eugenides are in their stable.)
Says the cryptic blurb:
A bold, provocative and very funny debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter and director A bold, timely and boundlessly original novel about identity, masks, memory and reality, from the mind that brought you films such as Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York.
I imagine Antkind is a play on mankind. 300 pages seems pretty sensible. For some reason I was expecting Charlie to hit us with a Foster Wallace-esque doorstop.
Antkind hasn't shown up yet on the U.S. Amazon site.
Just in case the U.K. Amazon page vanishes, behold proof:
A little Googling turned up a page at Harper Collins (UK)...
... but clicking the link leads to a dead page.
Still, the little blurb in Google's search results and at Amazon UK can be found at Kobo, too.
Huge thanks to Seed for the tip!
