Books by Kevin Barry
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English
review 1: Ironically I heard this author a few weeks ago on Public Radio and jotted his name down only to find his book in the mail from a Goodreads First Reads Giveaway. I thought it would be a great read because I usually Iove anything related to Ireland due to the fact that my maternal...
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English
review 1: This book is about a world. Kevin Barry excels at setting a scene or ,in this case building a world. While his cast of characters is indeed colourful and intriguing in their motives, there is no central focus. The story revolves around different power struggles, be it marital or ...
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English
review 1: This is a book about the delights and peculiarities of isolation. All the stories focus on a central character that is somehow set apart from things - 'things' in this case being largely Irish. Barry has a talent for fusing location, speech patterns and phrasing to bring his vari...