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Kevin Barry

Biography

Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry is the author of the novels CITY OF BOHANE, BEATLEBONE and NIGHT BOAT TO TANGIER, and three short story collections: THERE ARE LITTLE KINGDOMS, DARK LIES THE ISLAND and THAT OLD COUNTRY MUSIC. 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 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. For NIGHT BOAT TO TANGIER, he was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere. He lives in County Sligo in Ireland.

Kevin Barry

Books by Kevin Barry

by Kevin Barry - Fiction, Short Stories

With three novels and two short story collections published, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the finest writers not just in Ireland but in the English language. All of his prodigious gifts of language, character and setting in these 11 exquisite stories transport the reader to an Ireland both timeless and recognizably modern. Shot through with dark humor and the uncanny power of the primal and unchanging Irish landscape, the stories in THAT OLD COUNTRY MUSIC represent some of the finest fiction being written today.

by Kevin Barry - Fiction

In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen --- Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs --- sit at night, none too patiently. The pair are trying to locate Maurice’s estranged daughter, Dilly, whom they’ve heard is either arriving on a boat coming from Tangier or departing on one heading there. This nocturnal vigil will initiate an extraordinary journey back in time to excavate their shared history of violence, romance, mutual betrayals and serial exiles.

by Kevin Barry - Fiction

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 11 years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching 40s, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to calm his unquiet soul 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.