Solar Bones

Mike McCormack Press Reviews

Praise for Solar Bones:

'McCormack is one of our bravest and most innovative writers – he shoots for the stars with this one and does not fall short.' Kevin Barry

'Excellence is always rare and often unexpected: we don’t necessarily expect masterpieces even from the great. Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones is exceptional indeed: an extraordinary novel by a writer not yet famous but surely destined to be acclaimed by anyone who believes that the novel is not dead and that novelists are not merely lit-fest fodder for the metropolitan middle classes.' – The Guardian

'We could quote from Solar Bones for pages and pages; the ending left us dazed and it was a struggle not to immediately reread it. An immensely powerful book that blends the sublime and the everyday in a way that, if it doesn’t make you rethink the whole engineering profession, will definitely make you want to cheer McCormack onto this year’s prize lists. One of our top reads of the year so far.' – BookMunch

'… hauntingly sad, but also frequently very funny – Proust reconfigured by Flann O’Brien.' – Literary Review