Jun 13 2018
Mike McCormack has won the International Dublin literary award for his novel Solar Bones.
The judges hailed it as “formally ambitious, stylistically dauntless and linguistically spirited”. It is written in a single sentence that flows over 270-odd pages, and spans a single day: All Souls’ Day, when, according to superstition, the dead can return to the land of the living. Solar Bones is narrated by Marcus Conway – husband, father, civil engineer, a man gripped by “a crying sense of loneliness for my family” – and a ghost, a factor that, for McCormack, explains the experimental form. (“A ghost would have no business with a full stop,” he once argued. “It might fatally falter and dissipate.”)
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