Solar Bones

Winner of the Goldsmiths prize 2016

BGE Irish Book of the Year 2016

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017

Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life.

Considering with his engineer's mind how things are constructed - bridges, banking systems, marriages - and how they may come apart. Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life, suspended in a single hour.

'The work of an author in the full maturity of his talent, Solar Bones climaxes in a passage of savage, Gnostic religiosity: the writing catches fire as we draw near to the void, pass over into death itself, and therein confront the truth that even in a fallen universe, when all distractions tumble away, the only adequate response to our being is astonishment.' - The Irish Times