Solar bones

McCormack, Mike 1965- (author.).

Summary: "On All Souls Day, the late Marcus Conway returns home. Solar Bones captures in a single relentless sentence the life and death of this rural Irish engineer, and his place in the globally interconnected 21st century. The book takes in local municipal failures and global financial collapse, the quotidian pleasures of family, ancient history and the latest headlines, the living and the dead. A vital, tender, acerbic, warm, and death-haunted work one of Ireland's most important contemporary novelists, Solar Bones builds its own style and language one broken line at a time. The result is visionary accounting of the now"--

Item details

ISBN: 9781616958534
ISBN: 1616958537
ISBN: 9781616958541
Physical Description: print
217 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York, NY : Soho Press, Inc., 2017.
Copyright: ©2016

Contents / Notes

Awards Note:

"Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize"--Cover.

"BGE Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year"--Cover.

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