Books written by Mike McCormack

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  Forensic Songs: Stories

  This story collection by a Man Booker Prize nominee “effortlessly weaves Raymond Carver’s lucidity together with Franz Kafka’s otherworldly absurdity” (Library Journal, starred review).

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  Crowe's Requiem

  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.

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  Solar Bones

  Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life, suspended in a single hour.

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  Getting It in the Head: Stories

  Mom put her arms around Owl , cuddling him up close and patting his hair down , whispering to him . That little gesture reminded me of a story Owl had told me once , one of those stories he'd got from God knows where .

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  Crowe's Requiem

  "Originally published in 1998, the first novel from the author of Booker-listed Solar Bones, Crowe's Requiem, is an eerie, fable-like work that confirmed Mike McCormack as a stunning new voice in world literature.

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  Notes from a Coma

  Rescued from the squalor of a Rumanian orphanage, and adopted by the rural community of west Mayo, the child that is named J. J. O'Malley should have grown up happy....

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  Notes from a Coma

  Brilliantly imagined and artfully constructed─merging science fiction with an affectionate portrait of small town Ireland─Notes from a Coma is both the story of a man cursed with guilt and genius and a compassionate examination of how ...

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  Crowe's Requiem

  ... place in creation . " This is the last place God made , " he told me . " There can be no doubt about it . I know that as if I heard it from his own mouth . It was the last place God made at the end of the sixth day and he hadn't enough ...