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Mike McCormack seems to be tuned in to a different cosmic frequency than the rest of us. Whilst almost all of his work begins in a small, sleepy village in County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland, he has a unique way of making familiar landscapes and usually quiet lives extraordinary and surreal.
Irish novelist Mike McCormack, whose latest is "This Plague of Souls," finds inspiration in surprising places — like Louis L'Amour and other classic westerns.
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A man’s past comes back to haunt him when he returns home to rural Ireland, in this noirish metaphysical novel from the author of Solar Bones
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Weighing in at a slender 179 pages, McCormack’s quarry is the elusive stuff of consciousness itself