The Comets
Collected Short Fiction
$32.11
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
‘For over thirty years, Eoin McNamee has been one of the outstanding writers of his generation’ David Peace
‘McNamee’s books are intense and compressed, but so carefully worked that they read smoothly’ The Times
‘Eoin McNamee is the poet laureate of the visionary dark’ Colum McCann
By the author of The Bureau and Resurrection Man, a complete collection of Eoin McNamee’s shorter fiction, published in one volume for the first time.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529449969 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529449960 |
| Author: | Eoin McNamee |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 153mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
Eoin McNamee is the poet laureate of the visionary dark. He has consistently probed the edges where other writers fear to go, and he has earned his comparisons with writers as diverse as Cormac McCarthy, James Ellroy, Don deLillo, Kate Atkinson and so many others. In this volume of short fiction the style and the language stretch in endless directions. The Comets is a small, precise treasure. McNamee continues to be one of my favourite writers. * Colum McCann *
Eoin McNamee
Eoin McNamee is the author of eight novels including Resurrection Man, later filmed, and the Blue Trilogy. His work has been nominated for and won many major prizes including the Man Booker Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, the Kerry Fiction Prize, the Imison Award and the CWA Steel Dagger. Liam McIllvaney said of McNamee’s prose that it has the ‘cadenced majesty of McCarthy or DeLillo, but the vision it enacts is all his own.’
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