Notes from a Coma

McCormack, Mike

ISBN 10: 1616952326 / ISBN 13: 9781616952327

Published by Soho Press, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notes from a Coma
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616952326
• ISBN 13: 9781616952327
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1782223112.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 15408286
• Signed: 6/23/2026 1:58:32 PM
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Mike McCormack has published a collection of short stories, Getting It In the Head, and a novel, Crowe's Requiem. In 1996, McCormack was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. In 1998, Getting it in the Head was voted a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A story from the collection, "The Terms," was adapted into an award-winning short film.