Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Mayo. His previous work includes Notes from a Coma (2005), which was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, and Forensic Songs (2012). In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and in 2007 he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. In 2016, Solar Bones won the Goldsmiths Prize and the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year.
Sharp as knives, mixing tongue-in-cheek bog Gothic with
metaphysical flourishes and lashings of ultraviolence
* * Guardian * *
McCormack is one of our bravest and most innovative writers - he
shoots for the stars . . . and does not fall short
*Kevin Barry*
Remarkable, even at the most extreme moments
* * Irish Times * *
Funny, fantastical tales that trample on the toes of the twentieth
century itself
* * New York Times * *
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 * *
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