Mike McCormack: ‘If I’ve one gift as a writer, it’s patience’
Nov 11, 2023
4 minutes
Mike McCormack was born in London in 1965 and raised on a farm in County Mayo in the west of Ireland. He published his first story collection, , in 1996, followed by three novels that have marked him out as an experimentalist. (2005) interspersed its narrative with a fragmentary commentary at the bottom of each page. His work reached a wider audience with 2016’s , in which a lonely Mayo engineer recalls his life in one unending sentence – and was longlisted for the Booker. His latest novel, , follows a painter named Nealon as he returns home from prison and sets out to, and their son.
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