Solar Bones [Paperback]

why these bleak thoughts today, the wholeworld in shadow, everything undercut andsuspended in its own delirium

Marcus Conway has come home to his kitchen in Louisburgh, Co. Mayo,. Everything seems normal, yet he is haunted by the feeling that nothing is quite right. Poring obsessively over the details of his relationships, his world and his work as an engineer brings him closer to an understanding of how the things and people he loves have come together, and how they have and must inevitably come apart.

Winner of the International Dublin Literary Award 2018,Solar Bonesis Mike McCormack's multi-award-winning elegy to the merits of an ordinary life.

This adaptation was first presented at the Kilkenny Arts Festival, and subsequently at the Abbey Theatre. The production won Best Actor for Stanley Townsend and Best Director for Lynne Parker at the Irish Times Theatre Awards.

Michael Westhas written several plays in collaboration with Annie Ryan and The Corn Exchange includingMan Of Valour,Freefall(Best New Play at the Irish Theatre Awards and at the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild) and the world premiere adaptation of James Joyce'sDublinerspresented in association with the Dublin Theatre Festival 2012. Other work for The Corn Exchange includes EVERYDAY,Dublin By Lamplight,Foley, an adaptation ofLolita(in a co-production with the Abbey) andThe Seagullwhich will premiere at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2016. He has translated or adapted many texts, among themThe Marriage of Figarofor the Abbey; a version ofDeath and the Ploughmanby the Bohemian 14th century writer Johannes Von Saaz for Christian Schiaretti of the TNP in Lyon and produced by SITI company and directed by Anne Bogart in the USA; and plays by Moli?re, Marivaux, Calder?n and the contemporary French poet, Jean-Pierre Sim?on. His latest translation,Forever Yours, Mary-Loul,