Solar Bones
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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.
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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
BGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016
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.
Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life, suspended in a single hour.
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| Weight | 200 g |
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| Dimensions | 1 × 13 × 20 cm |
| Book_author | McCormack, Mike |
| Publisher | CANONGATE BOOKS |
| Imprint | Canongate |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 265 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | 1st paperback ed |
| Dewey | 823.92 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |