Beatlebone
- 30 Jun 2016
- 9781782116165
- £9.99
- 272 pp
- 129×198mm
- 29 Oct 2015
- 9781782116158
- £7.19
- 272 pp
- 29 Oct 2015
- 9781782118275
- £17.99
- 6 hrs 44 min
In a few words
Winner of the Goldsmiths prize and shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year
In a few words
The second novel from the IMPAC-winning and Costa-shortlisted Kevin Barry
In a few words
READ BY THE AUTHOR – the second novel from the IMPAC-winning and Costa-shortlisted Kevin Barry
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize
Books like this come along once in a generation
Superb . . . Beatlebone is a novel of necessary invention: profound, funny, hard to pin down
Casually lyrical, formally inventive, funny and moving, it is a small wonder
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
Casually lyrical, formally inventive, funny and moving, it is a small wonder
Gloriously freewheeling . . . a tale of fame, freaks, bad liquor and bad weather
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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.
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WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015
He will spend three days alone on his island. That is all that he asks . . . John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip.
John owns a tiny island off the west coast of Ireland. Maybe it is there that he can at last outrun the shadows of his past.
The tale of a wild journey into the world and a wild journey within, Beatlebone is a mystery box of a novel. It’s a portrait of an artist at a time of creative strife. It is most of all a sad and beautiful comedy from one of the most gifted stylists now at work.
More about
the book
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015
He will spend three days alone on his island. That is all that he asks . . . John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip.
John owns a tiny island off the west coast of Ireland. Maybe it is there that he can at last outrun the shadows of his past.
The tale of a wild journey into the world and a wild journey within, Beatlebone is a mystery box of a novel. It’s a portrait of an artist at a time of creative strife. It is most of all a sad and beautiful comedy from one of the most gifted stylists now at work.
Casually lyrical, formally inventive, funny and moving, it is a small wonder
Gloriously freewheeling . . . a tale of fame, freaks, bad liquor and bad weather
Beatlebone is a rule-breaking novel, a strange and fascinating look at the mystery of creative inspiration
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
Gloriously freewheeling . . . a tale of fame, freaks, bad liquor and bad weather
Books like this come along once in a generation
Beatlebone is as gloriously confounding and as wondrously welcome as a hatching hawk's egg in a Christmas cracker
The most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years
Irvine Welsh
Books like this come along once in a generation
Beatlebone is as gloriously confounding and as wondrously welcome as a hatching hawk's egg in a Christmas cracker
The most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years
Irvine Welsh
Beatlebone is a rule-breaking novel, a strange and fascinating look at the mystery of creative inspiration
Kevin Barry
View profileKevin 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.
Kevin Barry
View profileKevin 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.
Kevin Barry
View profileKevin Barry is the author of the novel City of Bohane and two short story collections, Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. He was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2007 and won The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize in 2012. For City of Bohane he was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Irish Book Award, and won the Author’s Club First Novel Prize, The European Prize for Literature and the IMPAC Prize. Beatlebone, his second novel, was the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Award.
