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Beatlebone
Kevin Barry
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Description for Beatlebone
Paperback. One of the most talked-about novels of 2015. Winner of the Goldsmiths prize and shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 190.
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS
"John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip."
A novel of family, ghosts, love, music and the quest for truth, Beatlebone recounts a wild journey through the west of Ireland in 1978. At its helm is John, a maddened genius fleeing fame and seeking peace. With his deadpan Irish driver, Cornelius, at his side, John is hellbent on reaching the Island of Dorinish, an assignment he arranged ten years before.
Lyrical, freewheeling, quixotic and fun, Beatlebone is a sad and beautiful comedy.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782116165
SKU
V9781782116165
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Ref
99-96
About Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry is the author of the novels Beatlebone, City of Bohane and Night Boat to Tangier and the story collections Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. His awards include the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter, and he lives in County Sligo, Ireland. In 2019, Night Boat to Tangier was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Reviews for Beatlebone
Books like this come along once in a generation
New York Times
Superb . . . Beatlebone is a novel of necessary invention: profound, funny, hard to pin down
Irish Times
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
Beatlebone is a rule-breaking novel, a strange and fascinating look at the mystery of creative inspiration
Financial Times
Maps the long-rumored territory between James Joyce and John Lennon with poetic precision and a wised-up but loving eye. It rewards the fan of both those artists yet stands on its own two (or maybe a shaggy dog's four) feet . . . Funny and sneakily informative . . . I read the final pages as slowly as I could in a vain attempt to keep the dream from being over
MICHAEL CHABON The most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years
IRVINE WELSH 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
Beatlebone is as gloriously confounding and as wondrously welcome as a hatching hawk's egg in a Christmas cracker
NIALL GRIFFITHS
New York Times
Superb . . . Beatlebone is a novel of necessary invention: profound, funny, hard to pin down
Irish Times
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
Beatlebone is a rule-breaking novel, a strange and fascinating look at the mystery of creative inspiration
Financial Times
Maps the long-rumored territory between James Joyce and John Lennon with poetic precision and a wised-up but loving eye. It rewards the fan of both those artists yet stands on its own two (or maybe a shaggy dog's four) feet . . . Funny and sneakily informative . . . I read the final pages as slowly as I could in a vain attempt to keep the dream from being over
MICHAEL CHABON The most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years
IRVINE WELSH 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
Beatlebone is as gloriously confounding and as wondrously welcome as a hatching hawk's egg in a Christmas cracker
NIALL GRIFFITHS