Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life, suspended in a single hour

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.
Longlisted
The Man Booker Prize 2017
Published by
Canongate
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Mike McCormack

Mike McCormack

About the Author

Mike McCormack’s monosentence Solar Bones failed to win the Booker Prize but it did win the Dublin Literary Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and was the Irish Books Awards novel of the year
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