· But Mike McCormack's Solar Bones is a wonderfully original, distinctly contemporary book, with a debt to modernism but up to something all its own The roughly pages draw together memories of family and work struggles, local and national politics, public works projects, medical crises, art, travel—in short, a life—all of it delivered in lucid, lyrical prose, with line breaks that rarely disrupt Brand: Soho Press, Incorporated. Mike McCormack's Solar Bones is exceptional indeed: an extraordinary novel by a writer not yet famous but surely destined to be acclaimed by anyone who believes that the novel is not dead and that novelists are not merely lit-fest fodder for the metropolitan middle classes. The Literary Review (UK). Winner of the International Dublin Literary Award, winner of the Goldsmith Prize, and the Booker nominee, Solar Bones is a stunning and beautifully written novel. Set in a small Irish town, Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen table on All Souls’ Day and reminisces about his life/5.
Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Mayo. His previous work includes Getting it in the Head (), Notes from a Coma (), which was shortlisted for BGE Irish Novel of the Year, and Forensic Songs (). Solar Bones by Mike McCormack review: portrait of a universe in dereliction. His latest novel shows the Mayo writer has lost none of his visionary intensity, writes Rob Doyle. Mike McCormack's Solar Bones is exceptional indeed: an extraordinary novel by a writer not yet famous but surely destined to be acclaimed by anyone who believes that the novel is not dead and.
But Mike McCormack's Solar Bones is a wonderfully original, distinctly contemporary book, with a debt to modernism but up to something all its own The roughly pages draw together memories of family and work struggles, local and national politics, public works projects, medical crises, art, travel—in short, a life—all of it delivered in lucid, lyrical prose, with line breaks that rarely disrupt but act more like breaths, as if spoken by a friend across the table For all its. Solar Bones by Mike McCormack review: portrait of a universe in dereliction. His latest novel shows the Mayo writer has lost none of his visionary intensity, writes Rob Doyle. Mike McCormack has long been a powerhouse on the Irish literary map, beloved by readers in the know, but with Solar Bones he has taken things to another level; the rendering of life and death is beautiful, generous and true, the language and its handling is marvelous and new, the reckoning with power and its cruelties is exactly as frank and relentless as such a reckoning needs, now, to be. A pure and genuinely inspired vision; a brilliant mind charging on.".
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