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Solar bones / Mike McCormack.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh Canogate Books ltd 2016Description: 217 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781616958534 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • PR 6063.C363 MAC 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6063.C363 S65 2017
Other classification:
  • FIC019000 | FIC045000
Summary: "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"--
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Books Books JST Library General Stacks PR<br>English literature PR 6063.C363 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 108042
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PR 6057.G613 Come deaf now hear PR6058.A68828 HAR Chocolat: PR6063.A355 MAI A book of silence / PR 6063.C363 MAC Solar bones / PR 6106.O95 CAS Under the shadow of the oath: PR 6113.O56 MOO Inigo PR 8070.O657 TOR The prophet :

"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"--

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