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Title	:	Beatlebone
Author	:	Kevin Barry
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 263 pages
Published	:	October 29th 2015 by Canongate
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. Music. European Literature. Irish Literature. Fantasy. Novels. Literature

Beatlebone

Kevin Barry

Hardcover | Pages: 263 pages

Rating: 3.47 | 2374 Users | 420 Reviews

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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.

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ISBN:	1782116133 (ISBN13: 9781782116134)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Goldsmiths Prize (2015)

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First of all this was by no means an easy read, with an almost hallucinatory feel to much of the book - as befitting one written about John Lennon no doubt -and it has kind of an odd structure in that half way through Kevin Barry interjects as himself and explains the back story to the book and the Island. Dont get me wrong I appreciated the insight and it did help to clarify much of what had gone before and came after, I did puzzle over why that particular piece was where it was though. Why not

People go strange out here, John. You wouldnt be the first and you wouldnt be the last.This wild, free-wheeling tale imagines a visit by John Lennon to Dorinish island (pictured above) off the west coast of Ireland in 1978. Haunted by his own demons, particularly the premature death of his mother Julia, he intends to spend three days by himself and "scream his fucking lungs out." Things don't go exactly to plan. For one thing John can't remember which one of the 365 islands in the bay belongs to

In the late 1960s John Lennon bought an island off the west coast of Ireland. Most Irish people are aware of it. Ask anyone about John Lennon's island or 'Beatle Island' and they'll know what you're talking about. Beatlebone is a fictionalised tale of John Lennon's attempt to visit his island in 1978 in order to combat his writer's block and to finally have a place to Scream. And it is a masterpiece.The novel is far from conventional. In fact, it won the Goldsmith's Prize, which is an award

This is the kind of novel that every now and again revives my hopes of what contemporary fiction could be. Not trying to speak for its generation, not an ego thing, not zeitgiesty, but somehow timeless, limitless, and goshdarn fun. With sensational wordage, and by mixing fiction, imaginative non-fiction, his own personal traveloguey stuff, and by some weird shamanic tapping into the spirit of the whole endeavour, Kevin Barry has knocked it out of the park and oh how it is teary and victorious.

The year 1978 was not a creatively rewarding one for John Lennon yes, THAT John Lennon. He spent most of his time in America, playing househusband and nursemaid to his young son Sean. After undergoing primal scream therapy with Arthur Janov, he viewed himself as unburdenedyet he was also creatively blocked.This is the John Lennon we meet in Kevin Barrys audacious and often brilliant new novel, Beatlebone. At the start of the novel, he has escaped from the heart of New York City to the west

I absolutely loved City of Bohane, with its tensions, character and humour illuminated by beautiful prose and poetic-but-true speech rhythms.With Beatlebone, it's as if the author thinks we'll love his writing style so much that we don't really need anything else. It didn't work for me. Yes, there is beautiful prose, and poetic-but-true speech - but it wasn't enough. I've seen this book described as a comedy but it didn't make me laugh.

I have no idea what just happened.I just read an entire book, and all I can get out of it is that John Lennon was talking to a seal at some point.I may need a coles notes for my book club on this one.