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Description for Forensic Songs
paperback. In his second collection of short stories, Mike McCormack joins head and heart in a series of tales which weave a fluid vision of a world morphing between the real and the hyperreal. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
In his second collection of short stories, Mike McCormack joins head andheart in a series of tales which weave a fluid vision of a world morphing between the real and the hyperreal. Amid much hollow laughter a prisoner is drawn from his cell in the middle of the night to play a video game; two rural guards ponder the security threat posed by the only man in Ireland not to have written his memoirs; a child tries to offset his destiny as a serial killer by petitioning his father for a beating; a late night American cop show becomes a ... Read more
In his second collection of short stories, Mike McCormack joins head andheart in a series of tales which weave a fluid vision of a world morphing between the real and the hyperreal. Amid much hollow laughter a prisoner is drawn from his cell in the middle of the night to play a video game; two rural guards ponder the security threat posed by the only man in Ireland not to have written his memoirs; a child tries to offset his destiny as a serial killer by petitioning his father for a beating; a late night American cop show becomes a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843512707
SKU
KMK0021880
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Mike McCormack
MIKE MCCORMACK was born in 1965 and comes from the west of Ireland. He is the author of a collection of short stories, Getting it in the Head (1996), and two novels, Crowe's Requiem (1998) and Notes from a Coma (2005). In 1996 McCormack was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature. Getting it in the Head was chosen as New ... Read more
Reviews for Forensic Songs
A cross betweenNineteen Eighty FourandThe X-Files… Combineschillingly credible scenarios with acerbic ‘political commentary …Powerfully imagined … Richly inventive and forcefully ironic,Notes From a Comaestablishes McCormack as one of the most original and important voices in contemporary Irish fiction’ –the Irish Times ‘A mordant yet funny fable for our times, rich in contemporary culturalreferences’ –Sunday Independent