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Description for Beatlebone
Hardcover. The second novel from the IMPAC-winning and Costa-shortlisted Kevin Barry Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 261 x 29. Weight in Grams: 398. First edition. Signed by the author on title page. Fine in fine dust wrapper, unread, as new
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015
He will spend three days alone on his island. That is all that he asks . . . John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip.
John owns a tiny island off the west coast of Ireland. Maybe it is there that he can at last outrun the shadows of his past.
The tale of a wild journey into the world and a wild journey within, Beatlebone is a mystery box of a novel. It's a portrait of an artist at a time of creative strife. It is most of all a sad and beautiful comedy from one of the most gifted stylists now at work.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782116134
SKU
KSG0024761
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry is the author of the novel City of Bohane and two short story collections, Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. He was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2007 and won The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize in 2012. For City of Bohane he was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Irish Book Award, and won the Author's Club First Novel Prize, The European Prize for Literature and the IMPAC Prize. Beatlebone, his second novel, was the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Award.
Reviews for Beatlebone
Casually lyrical, formally inventive, funny and moving, it is a small wonder
SUNDAY TIMES
Gloriously freewheeling . . . a tale of fame, freaks, bad liquor and bad weather
GUARDIAN
Books like this come along once in a generation
NEW YORK TIMES
The most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years
IRVINE WELSH Beatlebone is as gloriously confounding and as wondrously welcome as a hatching hawk's egg in a Christmas cracker
NIALL GRIFFITHS Beatlebone is a rule-breaking novel, a strange and fascinating look at the mystery of creative inspiration
FINANCIAL TIMES
A strange and brilliant experiment into showing your working. It's thematically dense yet supremely readable
METRO
I think Kevin Barry is two kinds, if not three kinds, of a genius . . . wonderful storytelling . . . enormously cinematic
TOM SUTCLIFFE
BBC RADIO 4 SATURDAY REVIEW
Superb . . . Beatlebone is a novel of necessary invention: profound, funny, hard to pin down
IRISH TIMES
Mingling surreal black humour and breakdown, Beatlebone is a wild cascade of language and imagery, rich in wordplay and referential resonance. Beneath the glittering surface Barry is giving us a vanitas on fame and celebrity. Remember the date is 1978. The real-life endgame will be played out very soon
SPECTATOR
As ever with Barry, the dialogue is a joy, tapping into a rich vein of humorous melancholy . . . this is a sharp, likeable book that moves deftly between warm comedy and a grimmer concern with Lennon's parentless childhood with the 'dead love stories' that 'make us'
SUNDAY TIMES
A profound, mad and intriguing novel. Too often novels about great artists shy away from attending to those very creative processes that made them great. Beatlebone is a committed, brutal portrait
LITERARY REVIEW
The kind of next-level literature that inspires, even incites another generation of natural-born wordsmiths to write big and bold
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
There's music to Barry's prose: Smart rhythms dart through his sentences; taut bridges join his paragraphs; the tinge of hysteria serves to animate his characters and their surroundings. His dialogue is whimsical, sometimes hilarious, catching the idiom of the local life, and, in Beatlebone, nailing John Lennon, the wittiest and darkest Beatle, spot on
SLATE
A genius of the language, teasing out impressionistic riffs that channel emotion into words
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Beatlebone is glorious, savoury stuff - part lark, part meditation, and a tiny part excavation
BOSTON GLOBE
SUNDAY TIMES
Gloriously freewheeling . . . a tale of fame, freaks, bad liquor and bad weather
GUARDIAN
Books like this come along once in a generation
NEW YORK TIMES
The most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years
IRVINE WELSH Beatlebone is as gloriously confounding and as wondrously welcome as a hatching hawk's egg in a Christmas cracker
NIALL GRIFFITHS Beatlebone is a rule-breaking novel, a strange and fascinating look at the mystery of creative inspiration
FINANCIAL TIMES
A strange and brilliant experiment into showing your working. It's thematically dense yet supremely readable
METRO
I think Kevin Barry is two kinds, if not three kinds, of a genius . . . wonderful storytelling . . . enormously cinematic
TOM SUTCLIFFE
BBC RADIO 4 SATURDAY REVIEW
Superb . . . Beatlebone is a novel of necessary invention: profound, funny, hard to pin down
IRISH TIMES
Mingling surreal black humour and breakdown, Beatlebone is a wild cascade of language and imagery, rich in wordplay and referential resonance. Beneath the glittering surface Barry is giving us a vanitas on fame and celebrity. Remember the date is 1978. The real-life endgame will be played out very soon
SPECTATOR
As ever with Barry, the dialogue is a joy, tapping into a rich vein of humorous melancholy . . . this is a sharp, likeable book that moves deftly between warm comedy and a grimmer concern with Lennon's parentless childhood with the 'dead love stories' that 'make us'
SUNDAY TIMES
A profound, mad and intriguing novel. Too often novels about great artists shy away from attending to those very creative processes that made them great. Beatlebone is a committed, brutal portrait
LITERARY REVIEW
The kind of next-level literature that inspires, even incites another generation of natural-born wordsmiths to write big and bold
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
There's music to Barry's prose: Smart rhythms dart through his sentences; taut bridges join his paragraphs; the tinge of hysteria serves to animate his characters and their surroundings. His dialogue is whimsical, sometimes hilarious, catching the idiom of the local life, and, in Beatlebone, nailing John Lennon, the wittiest and darkest Beatle, spot on
SLATE
A genius of the language, teasing out impressionistic riffs that channel emotion into words
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Beatlebone is glorious, savoury stuff - part lark, part meditation, and a tiny part excavation
BOSTON GLOBE