Notes from a Coma (eBook)

Mike McCormack (Autor)

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2017
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78689-142-6 (ISBN)

Infos

After suffering a catastrophic breakdown, J.J. O'Malley volunteers for a government project exploring the possibility of using coma as a means to keep prisoners under control. Floating in a maintained coma on a prison ship off the west coast of Ireland, his coma goes viral and the nation turns to watch. Brilliantly imagined and artfully constructed - merging science fiction with an affectionate portrait of small town Ireland - Notes from a Coma is a compassionate examination of a man cursed with guilt and genius.

Autor

Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Mayo. His previous work includes Getting it in the Head (1996) 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 the BGE Irish Book of the Year award.

Rezensionen

McCormack's obsessions at times converge with those explored by Ian McEwan, Will Self and J. G. Ballard, but his clever ideas and fluid, gracefully morbid style are all his own

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

The first great 21st-century Irish novel

When venturing into the realm of the macabre, a writer gains a distinct advantage if he has a sense of discipline and a sense of humor . . . Mike McCormack has both to spare . . . Like parables in their easy transcendence of setting and time, the most audacious stories are classics

McCormack's language is lovely, lyrical . . . his humor is dark, macabre; the words glimmer like a spell

A cross between 1984 and The X-Files . . . Notes From a Coma establishes McCormack as one of the most original and important voices in contemporary Irish fiction

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.7.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 1984 • A Girl is a Half-formed Thing • ali smith • award-winning fiction • Beatlebone • colm toibin • contemporary Irish fiction • days without end • debut novel • Eimear McBride • Forensic Songs • George Orwell • Getting it in the Head • Goldsmiths Prize • Himself • Ian McEwan • innovative fiction • Irish authors • Irish Book Awards • Irish fiction • Irish Novel of the Year • Jess Kidd • John Banville • kevin barry • lisa mcinerney • literary fiction • louise o'neill • Man Booker longlist • man booker prize 2017 • Mike McCormack • new wave Irish fiction • Notes from a Coma • psychological fiction • Sara Baume • Sebastian Barry • solar bones • The Lesser Bohemians • The X-files • Will Self • winner of Goldsmiths Prize
• ISBN-10: 1-78689-142-5 / 1786891425
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78689-142-6 / 9781786891426