Solar Bones

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE
BGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR

LIMITED EDITION HARDBACK

the Angelus bell
ringing out over its villages and townlands,
over the fields and hills and bogs in between,
six chimes of three across a minute and a half,
a summons struck
on the lip of the void

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 - bridges, banking systems, marriages - are constructed - 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.