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John Lennon’s desert island luxury

Merging fact with fiction, Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone centres on Lennon’s retreat from New York to his lonely Irish island for rest and primal screaming

24 October 2015

9:00 AM

24 October 2015

9:00 AM

Beatlebone Kevin Barry

Canongate, pp.263, £12.99, ISBN: 9781782116134

Beatlebone is an account of a journey, a psychedelic odyssey, its protagonist — at times its narrator — John Lennon, seen through the prism of Kevin Barry’s imagining. Barry’s first novel, The City of Bohane, was a dystopian nightmare of comic vernacular and violence, showered with praise and prizes. Think James Joyce and Flann O’Brien collaborating on a script for Tarantino.

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