Solar Bones

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD. WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE. BGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016. 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.