Barry, Kevin
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The Heart in Winter
Barry’s husky narration, in the manner of an Irish Batman, is fresh and well suited for this exceptional story of forbidden love set against a brutal Montana landscape. Fans of Cormac McCarthy will particularly relish it.
That Old CountryMusic: Stories
The multi-award-winning Barry (Night Boat to Tangier) dazzles with his word wizardry and the effortless grace of his perfect sentences. Highly recommended.
Night Boat to Tangier
This third novel (following Beatlebone) by IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner Barry is deeply satisfying. Stylistically, it advances the author’s talent for lyrical prose, with the dialog between Maurice and Charlie particularly magical. Similarly, Barry’s narrative pacing creates and then brilliantly settles the tensions between his characters. For all readers of literary fiction. [See Prepub Alert, 3/4/19.]
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Beatlebone
The best moments in Barry's second novel (which follows the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award-winning City of Bohane) happen when Lennon plays the straight man to the extraordinary O'Grady. An expository chapter describing Barry's own research journey for the book would have been a brilliant afterword but disrupts an otherwise extraordinary fiction that reads like a cross between Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Ciaran Carson's Shamrock Tea. [See Prepub Alert, 6/1/15.]
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Highly recommended for lovers of short stories, Irish literature, and good reading generally.
Dark Lies the Island: Stories
Highly recommended for lovers of short stories, Irish literature, and good reading generally.
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