A Year in Reading: Kevin Barry
Rattling around the house in the County Sligo hills, swinging from bouts of paranoia to moments of strange, demented hilarity, a 900-page doorstopper was just what I needed to stay grounded.
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A Year in Reading: Kevin Barry
To protect that vision, he had to be a monster sometimes, too, and the book doesn’t flinch from the often grim and telling details.
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A Year in Reading: Kevin Barry
Here in Ireland, if the short story doesn’t get an almighty kick up the arse about every five years or so, it tends to melt down into puddles of lyric reverie.
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A Year in Reading: Kevin Barry
He is the bastard love-child of John McGahern and JG Ballard, and this is a brilliant book.
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