Track & Field: A Novel

by Cormac James

The last days of the Irish Civil War. At dawn, three men load their brother’s coffin onto a truck and begin the long journey home to bury him. Their journey carries them into a sequence of seemingly inevitable trials – blown bridges, hostile locals, roadblocks, a ferry across a river in the dusk. At each encounter, the tension mounts. Night falls. To reach their destination, they must travel ever deeper into a lawless world, towards the coincidence of darkness, chaos, and violence.

192 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2000

About the author

Cormac James is an Irish writer. His short fiction has appeared in Guernica, AGNI, and elsewhere. His novel The Surfacing was published in 2014. He lives in Montpellier, France.