Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from County Mayo in Ireland. His previous work includes Forensic Songs; Notes from a Coma, which was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award; Crowe’s Requiem; and Solar Bones, which was a Times (UK) Best Book of the Year, won the Goldsmiths Prize, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Galway.
Praise for Getting It in the Head
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
"Funny, fantastical tales that trample inventively on the toes of
sanctimonious news media, provincial pride and the 20th century
itself."
—The New York Times Book Review
"Sharp as knives, mixing tongue-in-cheek bog Gothic with
metaphysical flourishes and lashings of ultraviolence."
—The Guardian
“McCormack’s first collection of short stories ranges from the west
of Ireland to New York to Purgatory . . . A helpless howl of
protest that presages not only the end of the [twentieth] century
but the end of civilisation itself.”
—Times Literary Supplement
“Remarkable, even at the most extreme moments.”
—The Irish Times
"There’s no denying McCormack’s knack for throwing a harsh light on
some of life’s grimmer corners. Disturbing, audacious work."
—Kirkus Reviews
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