Notes from a Coma
  • Published: 15 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9781616952327
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $29.99

Notes from a Coma

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Second novel from an author praised by David Means as "the next step in contemporary Irish fiction.... Visionary."

Mike McCormack's new novel Solar Bones is longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.

About Notes from a Coma

JJ O’ Malley, adopted from a Romanian orphanage by a single father in the west of Ireland, grows up a permanent outsider, and yet he finds his place in the community. At least until his world is shaken by the death of his best friend, and he volunteers for the “Somnos Project,” an experimental program testing deep coma as a potential option in the EU penal system.
 
In a prison ship docked in Killary Harbour, JJ is hooked up to monitoring devices that feed out to the Internet, and he and his fellow guinea pigs become global celebrities. A beautifully rendered look at small-town Irish life, and a far-reaching investigation of politics, neuroscience, global communications, and the ethics of incarceration, Notes from a Coma is a major work from one of the world’s bravest and most unusual novelists.
  • Published: 15 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9781616952327
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Mike McCormack

Mike McCormack comes from the west of Ireland and currently lives in Galway. He is the author of Getting it in the Head, which won various awards, including the Rooney Prize, Crowe's Requiem and Notes From a Coma.

Praise for Notes from a Coma

"A cross between 1984 and The X-Files.... Notes From a Coma establishes McCormack as one of the most original and important voices in contemporary Irish fiction.” ─Irish Times (original review)
 
"The greatest Irish novel of the decade just ended." ─Irish Times, Jan 15th 2010
 
"McCormack's language is lovely, lyrical ... his humor is dark, macabre; the words glimmer like a spell."  ─Time Out
 
Praise for Mike McCormack:
 
"McCormack's obsessions at times converge with those explored by Ian McEwan, Will Self and J. G. Ballard, but his clever ideas and fluid, gracefully morbid style are all his own." ─GQ
 
"When venturing into the realm of the macabre, a writer gains a distinct advantage if he has a sense of discipline and a sense of humor ... Mike McCormack has both to spare.... Like parables in their easy transcendence of setting and time, the most audacious stories are classics." ─The New York Times Book Review