Barry, Kevin
Summary: "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 tryto find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought nine years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, his inability...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, an Imprint of Penguin Random House 2015
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Summary: From the acclaimed author of the international sensations City of Bohane and Beatlebone, a striking and gorgeous new novel of two aging criminals at the butt ends of their damage-filled careers. A superbly melancholic melody of a novel full of beautiful phrases and terrible men. In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019
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Summary: "Stories of rural Ireland in the classic mode: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: This is a collection of stories about love and cruelty, crimes, desperation, and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as "the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years."
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Set 40 years in the future, the once great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is in terminal decline, with vice and tribal splits rife. Logan Hartnett, godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang has been in charge but his nemesis has arrived back in town, his henchmen are becoming ambitious, his wife wants him to give it all up and go straight and, he has his mother to contend with.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2012