Mike McCormack - Böcker

why these bleak thoughts today, the whole world in shadow, everything undercut and suspended in its own delirium Marcus Conway has come home to his kitchen in Louisburgh, Co. Mayo,. Everything seems normal, yet he is haunted by the feeling that no...

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CROWE'S REQUIEM tells the story of John Crowe, a young man born into a village without any apparent history or contact with the outside world. Coming under the tutelage of his mad, beloved grandfather, Crowe is introduced to an existence he feels ...

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Mike McCormack's new novel Solar Bones is longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. About Notes from a Coma JJ O' Malley, adopted from a Romanian orphanage by a single father in the west of Ireland, grows up a permanent outsider, and yet he finds ...

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Originally published in 1996, the first book from the author of Booker-listed Solar Bones , this New York Times Notable Book is a dark, uncanny collection of stunning breadth and audacity. This reissue of the author's celebrated 1997 debut collect...

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A man accused of political manipulation returns from a mysterious trial to his home in the west of Ireland only to find it deserted in this terse, brooding noir, named a most anticipated book of 2023 by The Guardian , The Irish Times , and The New...

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"After a period of imprisonment, Nealon returns to an empty house in the west of Ireland to find his wife and young son missing. Then he gets a call from a man who claims to know what's happened to them--a man who'll tell Nealon all he needs ...

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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 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...

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Prepare to enter a world where the infatuation with death, ruin and destruction is total. Set in locations from New York to the west of Ireland, and to the nameless realms of the imagination, it is a world where beautiful but deranged children mak...

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After suffering a catastrophic breakdown, J.J. O'Malley volunteers for a government project exploring the possibility of using coma as a means to keep prisoners under control. Floating in a maintained coma on a prison ship off the west coast ...

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A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR How do you rebuild a world that seems to be falling apart? Nealon returns to his family home in Ireland after a long time away, only to be greeted by a completely empty house. No heat or ligh...

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A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR Nealon returns to his family home in Ireland after a long time away, only to be greeted by a completely empty house. With no sign of his wife or child anywhere, it seems the world has forgott...

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Marcus Conway hat sich bemüht, ein guter Mensch zu sein und doch vieles falsch gemacht, hat Erwartungen geweckt und enttäuscht, Träume gehegt und aufgegeben, fühlte sich zum Priester berufen und ist doch Ingenieur geworden. Er hat seine Frau betro...

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