Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Mayo. His previous work includes Getting it in the Head (1995), Notes from a Coma (2005), which was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, and Forensic Songs (2012). In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and in 2007 he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. In 2016, Solar Bones won the Goldsmiths Prize and the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year.
Excellence is always rare and often unexpected: we don't
necessarily expect masterpieces even from the great. 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
* * Guardian * *
Pure enchantment from an otherworldly talent. I admired the hell
out of this book
*ELEANOR CATTON, Man Booker Prize-winning author of THE
LUMINARIES*
Wonderfully original, distinctly contemporary . . . delivered in
lucid, lyrical prose . . . A pleasure to read
* * New York Times * *
McCormack has always been among the most adventurous and ambitious
Irish writers. Solar Bones, written in one single sonorous
sentence, tells the story of a family in contemporary Ireland
*COLM TÓIBÍN*
The writing catches fire as we draw near to the void, pass over
into death itself, and therein confront the truth that even in a
fallen universe, when all distractions tumble away, the only
adequate response to our being is astonishment
* * Irish Times * *
Exhilarating
*LISA McINERNEY*
Hauntingly sad, but also frequently very funny - Proust
reconfigured by Flann O'Brien
*Literary Review*
Beautiful . . . Compulsive
* * The Times * *
This is prose that reads as if it is being thought . . . reduced me
to tears
* * New Statesman * *
A masterpiece
*Blake Morrison*
With stylistic gusto, and in rare, spare, precise and poetic prose,
Mike McCormack gets to the music of what is happening all around
us. One of the best novels of the year
*COLUM McCANN*
On every page, a celebration of the everyday, the odd, the
incidental
*SARA BAUME*
McCormack is one of our bravest and most innovative writers - he
shoots for the stars with this one and does not fall short
*KEVIN BARRY*
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