Crowe's Requiem by Mike Mccormack

Crowe's Requiem by Mike Mccormack

The first novel from the author of Booker-listed Solar Bones, Crowe's Requiem is a dark fable that cemented Mike McCormack's position as a stunning new voice in world literature.

McCormack's myth-tinged debut novel gives us the unforgettable Crowe and his endlessly curious and self-mythologizing stories. Crowe is born in the remote village of Furnace in the West of Ireland and raised by his grandfather, a man of madness and bullying love, who teaches him grim lessons about existence. Entirely silent until his third birthday, Crowe becomes an observant and isolated teenager, eventually leaving Furnace for a large and bewildering city. There he meets a woman who will change his life and outlook, and also finds himself diagnosed with a rare and fatal aging disease. A profound, philosophical, and darkly funny meditation on childhood and the nature of life and death, Crowe's Requiem challenges us with the power of stories to capture the pains, wonders, and mysteries of being a person in a wrong world.

McCormack, Mike: - MIKE McCORMACK is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Mayo. His previous work includes Getting it in the Head (1995), Notes from a Coma (2005), which was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award, and Forensic Songs (2012). In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and in 2007 he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. In 2016, his novel Solar Bones won the Goldsmiths Prize.

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ISBN 13	9781641292276
ISBN 10	164129227X
Title	Crowe's Requiem
Author	Mike Mccormack
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Soho Press Inc
Year published	2021-04-06
Number of pages	264
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