https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/chipublib/rss/search?query=McCormack%2C%20Mike%2C&searchType=author&origin=core-catalog-explore&view=groupedRSS for NodeWed, 07 Oct 2026 22:11:35 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2560085https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2560085Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2560085126BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781641295789/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1893806https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1893806Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1893806126PAPERBACKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781616959531/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize
Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize
Winner of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 
An Irish Times Book Club Choice
"With stylistic gusto, and in rare, spare, precise and poetic prose, Mike McCormack gets to the music of what is happening all around us. One of the best novels of the year." —Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic 
Solar Bones is a masterwork that builds its own style and language one broken line at a time; the result is a visionary accounting of the now.
A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland’s most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language, and our inescapable nearness to our last end. It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen table and remembers. In flowing, relentless prose, Conway recalls his life in rural Ireland: as a boy and man, father, husband, citizen. His ruminations move from childhood memories of his father’s deftness with machines to his own work as a civil engineer, from transformations in the local economy to the tidal wave of global financial collapse. Conway’s thoughts go still further, outward to the vast systems of time and history that hold us all. He stares down through the “vortex of his being,” surveying all the linked circumstances that combined to bring him into this single moment, and he makes us feel, if only for an instant, all the terror and gratitude that existence inspires.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3217012https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3217012Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3217012980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781616958541/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1533016https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1533016Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1533016126PAPERBACKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781616952327/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1917145https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1917145Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1917145126BOOK_CDA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501964879/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1601784https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1601784Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1601784126PAPERBACKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781616954147/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C725608https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C725608Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/725608126BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780805053708/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C674689https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C674689Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/674689126BKStoriesenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780805053715/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=The follow-up to Booker-listed literary sensation Solar Bones is a terse metaphysical thriller, named a most anticipated book of the year by The Guardian, The Irish Times, and The New Statesman.
Nealon returns from prison to his house in the West of Ireland to find it empty. No heat or light, no sign of his wife or child. It is as if the world has forgotten or erased him. Then he starts getting calls from a man who claims to know what's happened to his family-a man who'll tell Nealon all he needs to know in return for a single meeting.
In a hotel lobby, in the shadow of an unfolding terrorist attack, Nealon and the man embark on a conversation shot through with secrets and evasions, a verbal game of cat and mouse that leaps from Nealon's past and childhood to the motives driving a series of international crimes launched against "a world so wretched it can only be redeemed by an act of revenge." McCormack's existential noir is a terse and brooding exploration of the connections between rural Ireland and the globalized cruelties of the twenty­first century. It is also an incisive portrait of a young and struggling family, and a ruthless interrogation of what we owe to those nearest to us, and to the world at large.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9661272https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9661272Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9661272980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781641295796/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3784016https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3784016Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3784016980EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501964978/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C842403https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C842403Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/842403126BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780764553059/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=