Solar Bones

Description

Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life. Considering with his engineer's mind how things are constructed - bridges, banking systems, marriages - and how they may come apart. Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life, suspended in a single hour.

Awards

Winner of BGE Irish Book Awards: Book of the Year 2016. WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016  Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017

Reviews

Exceptional indeed: an extraordinary novel * Guardian * A masterpiece -- Blake Morrison Spellbinding * Irish Times * Hauntingly sad, but also frequently very funny - Proust reconfigured by Flann O'Brien. * Literary Review * Difficult to put down. This is prose that reads as if it is being thought ... reduced me to tears * New Statesman * Solar Bones is the encompassing flash of a life ... compulsively readable * Irish Times * Exhilarating -- Lisa McInerney The writing catches fire as we draw near to the void, pass over into death itself, and therein confront the truth that even in a fallen universe, when all distractions tumble away, the only adequate response to our being is astonishment. * Irish Times * On every page, a celebration of the everyday, the odd, the incidental. -- Sara Baume, author of SPILL SIMMER FALTER WITHER McCormack is one of our bravest and most innovative writers - he shoots for the stars with this one and does not fall short. -- Kevin Barry, author of BEATLEBONE