Crowe’s Requiem: A Novel - Mike McCormack

Written by Mike McCormack
Read by Roger Clark
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

General Information
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Title: Crowe’s Requiem
Author: Mike McCormack
Reader: Roger Clark
Audiobook Copyright: 2021-04-06
Publisher: HighBridge
Duration: 8 hrs 0 mins
ISBN: 9781696604482
Subjects: Drama

File Information
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Media Format: AAC
Total Files: 1
Total Size: 440 MB
Bitrate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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Originally published in 1998, the first novel from the author of
Booker-listed Solar Bones, Crowe’s Requiem is an eerie, fable-like
work that confirmed Mike McCormack as a stunning new voice in world
literature.

McCormack’s myth-tinged debut novel gives us the unforgettable Crowe
and his endlessly curious and self-mythologizing stories. Crowe is
born in the remote village of Furnace in the West of Ireland and
raised by his grandfather, a man of “madness and bullying love,” who
teaches him grim lessons about existence. Entirely silent until his
third birthday, Crowe becomes an observant and isolated teenager,
eventually leaving Furnace for university in a “wrong-footed” and
bewildering city. There he meets a woman who will change his life and
outlook, but a diagnosis with a rare and fatal aging disease means
that his time with her will be cut tragically short. A profound,
philosophical, and darkly funny meditation on childhood, aging, and
the nature of life and death, Crowe’s Requiem challenges us with the
powers and limits of stories to capture the pains, wonders, and
mysteries of being a person in a “wrong world.”