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A searing, surreal novel that bleeds fantasy and reality—and Beatles fandom—from one of literature’s most striking contemporary voices, author of the international sensation City of Bohane
It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought nine years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to find calm in the comfortable silence of isolation. But when he puts himself in the hands of a shape-shifting driver full of Irish charm and dark whimsy, what ensues can only be termed a magical mystery tour.
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“Books like this come along once in a generation, books by writers with real chops, who haven’t yet been discouraged from taking real chances and blurring the lines between disciplines.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“Glorious, savory stuff—part lark, part meditation, and a tiny part excavation.”
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“Barry has a wry, pitch-perfect ear for dialogue and an equally affecting eye for character traits.”
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"Beatlebone is an odyssey of the mind…Barry succeeds by parsing John’s limbo state so clearly and vividly.”
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“Barry, a great poet of a novelist…has created an unusual novel, remarkable in structure as well as tone, that channels the contradictory nature of Lennon himself.”
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“This original, lyrical, genre-challenging work…[is] intriguing at every turn, and Barry’s prose can be as mesmerizing as some of his hero’s songs.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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A 2015 New York Times Book Review Notable Book
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A New York Times Editor’s Choice
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A BookPage Top Pick for Literary Fiction for December 2015
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A New York Magazine Top 10 Books of November 2015
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About Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry is the author of the novels Night Boat to Tangier, Beatlebone, and City of Bohane 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 appear in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter, and he lives in County Sligo, Ireland.