Solar bones
By: Mike McCormack
Publisher: Tramp Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780992817091
Subjects: English fiction; Families; Irish authors; Fiction
Description: 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. Set in the west of Ireland as the recession is about to strike, this novel is a portrait of one man's experience when his world threatens to fall apart. 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.
Notes: The Goldsmiths Prize (UK), Winner 2016.