Solar bones /
By: McCormack, Mike [author.].
Series: Goldsmiths Prize ; International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Publisher: [Dublin] : Tramp Press, 2016Description: 223 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780992817091.Subject(s): English fiction -- Irish authors -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 823.92 Awards: Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize (UK), 2016 and winner of the IMPAC award 2018.Summary: 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 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.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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 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.
Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize (UK), 2016 and winner of the IMPAC award 2018.