Beatlebone

Beatlebone A Novel

First American edition

Hardback (17 Nov 2015)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A searing, surreal novel that blends fantasy and reality-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 eleven years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, 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.
     Beatlebone is a tour de force of language and literary imagination that marries the most improbable elements to the most striking effect. It is a book that only Kevin Barry would attempt, let alone succeed in pulling off-a Hibernian high wire act of courage, nerve, and great beauty.

About the Publisher

Doubleday

Doubleday

Doubleday is an imprint of Transworld Publishers and publishes bestselling authors such as Bill Bryson, Joanne Harris, Terry Pratchett and Kate Atkinson in hardback.

Book information

ISBN: 9780385540292
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Doubleday
Pub date:
Edition: First American edition
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 428g
Height: 199mm
Width: 138mm
Spine width: 31mm