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Beatlebone by Kevin Barry

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Beatlebone

by Kevin Barry

"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.

Fiction Fiction, psychological New york (n.y.), fiction Musicians, fiction
Author Kevin Barry
Published 2015
Format Book

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About Beatlebone

"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 that marries the most improbable element to the most striking effect"--

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