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Solar Bones

Mike McCormack

3.80/5 (3062 ratings)

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the Angelus bell
ringing out over its villages and townlands,
over the fields and hills and bogs in between,
 six chimes of three across a minute and a half, 
a summons struck 
on the lip of the void

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. 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.

Funny and strange, McCormack’s ambitious and other-worldly novel plays with form and defies convention. This is profound new work is by one of Ireland’s most important contemporary novelists. A beautiful and haunting elegy, this story of order and chaos, love and loss captures how minor decisions ripple into waves and test our integrity every day.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 223 pages

Publication:: 2016

Publisher:: Tramp Press

Edition:: First Edition, first impression.

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0992817099

ISBN13:: 9780992817091

kindle Asin:: B01N4HHS1A

Solar Bones

Mike McCormack

3.80/5 (3062 ratings)

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the Angelus bell
ringing out over its villages and townlands,
over the fields and hills and bogs in between,
 six chimes of three across a minute and a half, 
a summons struck 
on the lip of the void

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. 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.

Funny and strange, McCormack’s ambitious and other-worldly novel plays with form and defies convention. This is profound new work is by one of Ireland’s most important contemporary novelists. A beautiful and haunting elegy, this story of order and chaos, love and loss captures how minor decisions ripple into waves and test our integrity every day.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 223 pages

Publication:: 2016

Publisher:: Tramp Press

Edition:: First Edition, first impression.

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0992817099

ISBN13:: 9780992817091

kindle Asin:: B01N4HHS1A

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