Solar bones
By: Mike McCormack
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781616958534
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: English fiction; Families; Irish authors; Fiction
Description: "On All Souls Day, the late Marcus Conway returns home. Solar Bones captures in a single relentless sentence the life and death of this rural Irish engineer, and his place in the globally interconnected 21st century. The book takes in local municipal failures and global financial collapse, the quotidian pleasures of family, ancient history and the latest headlines, the living and the dead. A vital, tender, acerbic, warm, and death-haunted work one of Ireland's most important contemporary novelists, Solar Bones builds its own style and language one broken line at a time. The result is visionary accounting of the now"--