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Solar Bones

By: Mike McCormack
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
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Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2017
Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2016
BGE Irish Book of the Year 2016

Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life. Considering with his engineer's mind how things are constructed - bridges, banking systems, marriages - and how they may come apart. Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life suspended in a single hour.

©2016 Mike McCormack (P)2017 Canongate Books Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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Fantastic! Very hight level of literature. The language is amazing. The story is complete. I like everything about this book. Thank you

Solar of bones

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Despite the beauty of the writing, which is on occasionpoetic and powerful, this book is a monologue where one middle aged man revisits and narrates his life. Like most lives, it has its moments of interest, but more that is humdrum and tedious. Much of the story had me silently urging the narrator to speed on, just to get through the more mundane experiences of the main character. I was so bored by his memories of arguments with co-workers over the consistency and makeup of concrete that I had to force myself to keep listening. I got to the end, which was too predictable to be shocking, but it was hard going sometimes. The narrator did a good job, but the overall story was as dull as most ordinary lives are. The beautiful writing couldn’t save the mundanity of the subject’s life.

The tedium of an ordinary life

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