Solar Bones - Mike McCormack

Mike McCormack

Category: General Fiction

Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Contemporary

2016, 2017, 9h, 72Kbps VBR mono (made via LAME 3.99 from Inaudible M4B). Includes eBook., from Publishers Description: Funny and strange, McCormacks ambitious and other-worldly novel plays with form and defies convention. This is profound new work is by one of Irelands 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., from NYT review [minor spoilers]: Mike McCormacks Solar Bones (winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and longlisted for the Man Booker) is a wonderfully original, distinctly contemporary book, with a debt to modernism but up to something all its own., On Nov. 2, All Souls Day (when Catholics pray for the souls in purgatory), the civil engineer Marcus Conway finds himself in his kitchen feeling inexplicably disoriented, as if suddenly untethered from the world. In fact he is dead, a ghost, but he does not realize it. He hears the noon