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| Author/Contributor(s): | McCormack, Mike |
| Publisher: | Soho Press |
| Date: | 7/8/2014 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Mike McCormack’s new novel Solar Bones is longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.
In his second collection of short stories, Mike McCormack joins headand heart in a series of tales which weave a fluid vision of a worldmorphing between the real and the hyperreal.
Amid much hollow laughter a prisoner is drawn from his cell in themiddle of the night to play a video game; two rural guards ponder thesecurity threat posed by the only man in Ireland not to have written hismemoirs; a child tries to offset his destiny as a serial killer bypetitioning his father for a beating; a late night American cop showbecomes a savage analysis of a faltering marriage in the west ofIreland; two men turn up at the door of a slacker to give him news ofhis death and recruit him to some mysterious surveillance mission; anolder brother worries about the health of his younger sibling; theprodigal son returns to reveal the fear and hypocrisy which lies at theheart of his brothers life.
In twelve stories McCormack’s characters find themselves trying tohold onto their identities in a world where love is too often and tooeasily obscured.
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