Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Mayo. His previous work includes Getting it in the Head (1995) 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.
The first great 21st-century Irish novel
* * Irish Times * *
Adventurous and ambitious
*Colm Tóibín*
McCormack's language is lovely, lyrical . . . his humor is dark,
macabre; the words glimmer like a spell
* * Time Out * *
McCormack's obsessions at times converge with those explored by Ian
McEwan, Will Self and J. G. Ballard, but his clever ideas and
fluid, gracefully morbid style are all his own
* * GQ * *
When venturing into the realm of the macabre, a writer gains a
distinct advantage if he has a sense of discipline and a sense of
humor . . . Mike McCormack has both to spare . . . Like parables in
their easy transcendence of setting and time, the most audacious
stories are classics
* * The New York Times Book Review * *
A cross between 1984 and The X-Files . . . Notes From a Coma
establishes McCormack as one of the most original and important
voices in contemporary Irish fiction
* * Irish Times * *
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