Beatlebone by Kevin Barry5/23/2023 You know: that thing where you’ve got 10 or 15 wonderful books at the side of your bed, and you’re there looking at your iPhone. Our attention flits very quickly from text to text. We’re much more impatient now-I think, primarily, because we’re all online, all the time. Kevin Barry: We’ve changed very much as readers of texts, in recent years. He spoke to me by phone from his home in County Sligo, Ireland. Kevin Barry is author of the collection Dark Lies the Island and the novel City of Bohane, which won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. For Barry, there were numerous challenges in conjuring an icon’s spoken cadence, and his revision process-he reads the work aloud like an actor, and it takes years to get the voices right-is laborious. Artistically frustrated and besieged by fame, Lennon tries to make his way to a private island off the Irish coast, where he hopes to get some peace. What I Learned About Life at My 30th College Reunion Deborah Copakenīeatlebone, Barry’s latest, is a work of speculative historical fiction: The protagonist is a world-weary John Lennon, encountered two years before his untimely death in 1980.
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