Solar Bones: A Novel

"You would think this book, written in one long sentence, with only commas for punctuation, would be a slog, but instead it’s a pleasure, and Mike McCormack has created a narrative of such power and precision, with a character, a civil engineer in a small Irish town, who exudes such quiet gentleness, confusion, sometimes anger and many a foible, that despite the sense that you might get lost between the past and present and inner and outer world, you don’t, and the book, contemporary and tragic and funny, is a delight(.)"