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Il Fiordo Di Killary (2012)

by Kevin Barry(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

8845929132 (ISBN13: 9788845929137)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Adelphi

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 various points home. He avoids the usual pitfalls of the form (e.g. deliberate knowingness, excessive pathos) and he often sets the reader up to expect one obvious thing before swerving into something much more unexpected and satisfying. The stories range from arch-comic through irony to poignant-tragic. There are no weak spots and many highs.
review 2: Short stories from Kevin Barry, author of There Are Little Kingdoms and City of Bohane. Kevin Barry has a wider range, and more flexibility... more in his voice, than almost anyone. The first couple of stories in this collection are absolutely hilarious and fun, the middle section stories are sentimental, and the last story is a pitch-perfect remembrance of a wild character in Berlin, and homage to the fierce power and wild seductions of artists and their improbable callings. less

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