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Solar Bones

Written 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
Literary Fiction
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Interesting plot but far too drawn out and repetitive

I was really looking forward to this however it did disappoint. First, the good stuff - the prose is well written. It’s a stream of consciousness work so I’d highly recommend that unless you can keep up with a continuous and unrelenting narration in the same monotone, to opt for the physical book instead of audio as it was quite hard to get into. Other than that the book tends to be extremely repetitive and all in all for me, not very engaging. An old man lives out the entirety of his life at his kitchen table, with insufficient character description for everyone apart from himself. I just didn’t feel invested in the characters or the story.

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