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Notes from a Coma
Mike McCormack
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Description for Notes from a Coma
Paperback. The critically acclaimed novel from the author of Solar Bones, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and BGE Irish Book of the Year Series: Canons. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
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 of Ireland, his coma goes viral and the nation turns to watch. Brilliantly imagined and artfully constructed - merging science fiction with an affectionate portrait of small town Ireland - Notes from a Coma is a compassionate examination of a man cursed with guilt and genius.
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 of Ireland, his coma goes viral and the nation turns to watch. Brilliantly imagined and artfully constructed - merging science fiction with an affectionate portrait of small town Ireland - Notes from a Coma is a compassionate examination of a man cursed with guilt and genius.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Canons
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786891419
SKU
V9781786891419
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-11
About Mike McCormack
Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Mayo. His previous work includes Getting it in the Head (1996) and Forensic Songs (2012). In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Getting it in the Head and in 2007 he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. In 2016, Solar Bones won the Goldsmiths ... Read more
Reviews for Notes from a Coma
The first great 21st-century Irish novel
Irish Times
Adventurous and ambitious
Colm Toibin McCormack's language is lovely, lyrical . . . his humor is dark, macabre; the words glimmer like a spell
Time Out
McCormack's obsessions at times converge with those explored by Ian McEwan, Will Self ... Read more
Irish Times
Adventurous and ambitious
Colm Toibin McCormack's language is lovely, lyrical . . . his humor is dark, macabre; the words glimmer like a spell
Time Out
McCormack's obsessions at times converge with those explored by Ian McEwan, Will Self ... Read more