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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEBGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life. Considering with his engineer’s mind how things are constructed – bridges, banking systems, marriages – and how they may come apart. Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life, suspended in a single hour.