Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2016-10-04)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780345810496
• Item Weight: 249.48 grams
• Dimensions: 7.96 x 5.18 x 0.81 cm

A searing novel that blends truth and fiction—and Beatles fandom—from one of literature's most striking contemporary voices, author of the international sensation City of Bohane.

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 nine years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to find calm 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. Beatlebone is a tour de force of language and literary imagination, a surreal novel that blends fantasy and reality—a Hibernian high-wire act of courage, nerve, and great beauty.

About the Author

KEVIN BARRY is the author of the novels Night Boat to Tangier, Beatlebone, and City of Bohane as well as three story collections including That Old Country Music. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, and elsewhere. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter, and lives in County Sligo, Ireland.