Beatlebone
Beatlebone
paperback
Published:
30 June, 2016
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Description
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.
Prizes
Winner of The Goldsmiths Prize 2015 (UK),Short-listed for Irish Book Awards Eason Novel of the Year 2015 (Ireland),Short-listed for James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2016 (UK)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781782116165 |
| ISBN10 | 1782116168 |
| Number Of Pages | 272 |
| Item Weight | 219 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 17 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Canongate Books |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Main |
Media Reviews
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
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Author's Bio
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.