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Laddar... Beatlebone (urspr publ 2015; utgåvan 2015)av Kevin Barry (Författare)
VerkdetaljerBeatlebone av Kevin Barry (2015)
  
Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. A trippy and poetic journey into the myth of John Lennon. Drugs, self, identity, muse and rage. Lots of wierd shit, but it's quite enjoyable. Really nicely mixes in lots of lyrical references to Lennon's music. (  ) mjhunt | Jan 22, 2021 |  moving and immersive at times. not really for me, but maybe for someone else. i liked the more dialogue-heavy sections where we get to listen to the characters, especially john of course who is a magnetic literary creation. ( ) bostonbibliophile | Mar 29, 2019 | Lyrical and magical and essentially Irish. Set in 1978 we spend time with John the macrobiotic father/doubter/searcher rather than John the Beatle. This an unselfconsciously ambitious novel that mostly succeeds. Delightful. (  ) asxz | Mar 13, 2019 | A surreal, poetic and wild tribute to John Lennon by another of Ireland's talented young writers. This book imagines Lennon travelling round the west of Ireland trying to reach an island he owns while evading the attention of the press. This leads to a series of strange encounters and reminiscences, some of which have some factual basis, and explorations of his Liverpool Irish roots. There is also a chapter about two thirds of the way through in which Barry explains his own motivations and how the book germinated, but for the most part the style is inspired by Lennon. I found this a very enjoyable read. ( ) bodachliath | Sep 14, 2018 | This is a very odd book and only really made any sort of sense to me after I read Part Six which gives it a bit more of a context. It's about John Lennon going on a strange road trip to an island in Ireland in 1978. It's quite surreal and I suspect a lot of it went over my head! Some excellent dialogue and back and forth between the characters but needs a bit of concentration. ( ) AlisonSakai | Jul 4, 2017 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"A searing, surreal novel that bleeds 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 nine years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to find calm 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 element to the most striking effect"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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