RaveThe New York Times Book Review...a wonderfully original, distinctly contemporary book, with a debt to modernism but up to something all its own ... McCormack is a pleasure to read on everything from King Crimson to picking out eyeglasses but it’s the connections that the book keeps coming back to, the way one story relates to another, the whole greater than its parts ... For all its apparent stylistic complexity, Solar Bones is a beautifully simple book. Death has not solved Marcus’s worldly problems, only offered a shift of scope, and this is what McCormack’s novel offers as well. Where modernism took a world that appeared to be whole and showed it to be broken, Solar Bones takes a world that can’t stop talking about how broken it is, and suggests it might possibly be whole.