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Solar Bones by Mike McCormack is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Solar Bones about?

Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life, suspended in a single hour.Once a year, on All Souls’ Day, it is said in Ireland that the dead may return. Solar Bones is the story of one such visit. Marcus Conway, a middle-aged engineer, turns up one afternoon at his kitchen table and remembers 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. Funny and strange, Mike McCormack’s ambitious and other-worldly novel plays with form and defies convention. This profound new work is by one of Ireland’s most important contemporary novelists. A beautiful and haunting elegy, this story of order and chaos, love and loss capture how minor decisions ripple into waves and test our integrity every day. "McCormack’s perceptive gaze, artful elucidations, and confident prose elevate the conceit to a captivating experience ... Solar Bones is a stunning outcry against human isolation and the 'cosmic odds stacked against this here-and-now.' It is a heartfelt hymn to the matchless shelter of love, singular in its stability, relentles

Who reads Solar Bones?

Author

Mike McCormack

Publisher

Canongate Books Ltd

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781786891280

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.91 / 5 (36 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14