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Solar Bones

by Mike McCormack

International Dublin · 2018 · Winner
Soho PressLiterary FictionISBN 9780374267155

Award History

AwardYearStatus
International Dublin Literary Award2018Winner

About This Book

Mike McCormack's experimental novel — a single sentence that runs the length of a book — follows an Irish engineer's stream of consciousness as he stands in his kitchen on All Souls' Day. Winner of the Dublin Literary Award and the Goldsmiths Prize.

About the Author

Mike McCormack (born 1965) is an Irish novelist and short-story writer from County Mayo, known for his innovative works such as the single-sentence novel Solar Bones (2016), Notes from a Coma (2005), and This Plague of Souls (2023). His debut collection Getting It in the Head (1996) won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and Solar Bones earned him the Goldsmiths Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award.

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