Solar Bones

Name: Solar Bones
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781786891297
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By Mike McCormack

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Solar Bones by Mike McCormack unfolds in a single continuous sentence, capturing the stream-of-consciousness of Marcus Conway as he reflects on his life from his kitchen table in rural Ireland. This novel explores themes of memory, family, and the passage of time, offering a deep and lyrical meditation on what it means to be alive.
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You might enjoy this book if you're drawn to beautifully crafted narratives that explore the intricacies of life and death through a lyrical and continuous stream of consciousness. It paints a vivid picture of everyday moments, offering a profound reflection on family, work, and our place in the universe. Perfect for readers who appreciate unique storytelling and poetic prose.

Solar Bones

Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize: this 'masterpiece' of a novel, is an international literary sensation, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year.

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WINNER 2018 Dublin International Literary Prize
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016
IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR

Once a year, on All Souls' Day, it is said in Ireland that the dead may return. Solar Bones is the story of one such visit.

Marcus Conway, a middle-aged engineer, turns up one afternoon at his kitchen table and considers the events that took him away and then brought him home again.

Funny and strange, McCormack's ambitious and other-worldly novel plays with form and defies convention. This profound new work is by one of Ireland's most important contemporary novelists. A beautiful and haunting elegy, this story of order and chaos, love and loss captures how minor decisions ripple into waves and test our integrity every day.

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Reviews of Solar Bones describe it as an extraordinary and masterful work, praised for its lucid, lyrical prose and innovative style. Described as a single sentence, the novel is both hauntingly sad and frequently humorous, offering a unique portrayal of a family in contemporary Ireland. Critics laud Mike McCormack's ambitious narrative, celebrating its ability to capture the music of everyday life and its evocative emotional depth.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781786891297

Publisher: Canongate Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 May 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Canongate Books

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 200.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 10.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 272

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About the Author

Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Mayo. His previous work includes Getting it in the Head (1995), Notes from a Coma (2005), which was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, and Forensic Songs (2012). In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and in 2007 he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. In 2016, Solar Bones won the Goldsmiths Prize and the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year.

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