Solar Bones (eBook)

Mike McCormack (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017 | Main
296 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78689-128-0 (ISBN)

Infos

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEBGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Marcus 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.

Autor

Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Mayo. His previous work includes Getting it in the Head (1996), Notes from a Coma (2005), which was shortlisted for BGE Irish Novel of the Year, and Forensic Songs (2012). In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Getting it in the Head and in 2007 he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. In 2016, Solar Bones won the Goldsmiths Prize and was BGE Irish Book of the Year, was longlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2017 and won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2018.

Rezensionen

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.

A masterpiece . . . Politics, family, art, marriage, health, civic duty and the environment are just a few of the themes it touches on, in a prose that's lyrical yet firmly rooted. Its subject may be an ordinary working life, but it is itself an extraordinary work.

McCormack is one of our bravest and most innovative writers - he shoots for the stars with this one and does not fall short.

This is an ordinary story told in the most extra�ordinary words.

On every page, a celebration of the everyday, the odd, the incidental.

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.

Hauntingly sad, but also frequently very funny - Proust reconfigured by Flann O'Brien.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2017
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 4321 • Academy Street • A Girl is a Half-formed Thing • ali smith • Arundhati Roy • award-winning fiction • Beatlebone • belinda mckeon • BGE Prize 2016 • Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year 2016 • colm toibin • Colson Whitehead • Conor O’Callaghan • days without end • Donal Ryan • Eason Book Club Novel of the Year • Eimear McBride • Emma Donoghue • Exit West • Forensic Songs • Galway • George Saunders • Getting it in the Head • Goldsmiths Prize • Goldsmiths Prize 2016 • Graham Norton • Himself • Holding • Ian McEwan • Inch Levels • Irish authors • Irish Book Awards • Irish Book of the Year • Irish fiction • Irish Novel of the Year • Jess Kidd • John Banville • Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award shortlist • kevin barry • Kit de Waal • lisa mcinerney • literary fiction • louise o'neill • Louise O’Neill • Man Booker 2016 • Man Booker longlist • man booker prize 2017 • Man Booker Prize audio • Marian Keyes • Mary Costello • Michael Harding • Mike McCormack • my name is leon • Neil Hegarty • Notes from a Coma • Nothing On Earth • Paul Auster • psychological fiction • Republic of Consciousness Prize • reservoir 13 • room • Sara Baume • Sebastian Barry • Solace • solar bones • Staring at Lakes • The Spinning Heart • the wonder • Tim Gerard Reynolds • winner of Goldsmiths Prize • Zadie Smith
• ISBN-10: 1-78689-128-X / 178689128X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78689-128-0 / 9781786891280