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Kevin barry explains night boat to tangier and life on. The map accompanying the book to this area could be a province of tolkiens middle earth as much as this alternate western irish seaboard of 2054. Barry s debut novel, a nearfuture noir, takes readers on a walking tour of bohane, an apocalyptic fictional city on irelands west coast. Editions of city of bohane by kevin barry goodreads. City of bohane is an accomplished debut novel from barry, the rooney shortstory prize winner for his debut collection of stories there are little kingdoms. I picked up city of bohane expecting a book of gang warfare, of violent dystopian action perhaps in the expected mode of such stories think gangs of new york in which events build to an brutal, climactic showdown. The best novel to come out of ireland since ulysses. When i recorded the audio book version, i noticed a certain glee. Kevin barry on city of bohane the author describes how his weird retrofitted futurewestern came about, and why writing is so close to. Pdf city of bohane download full pdf book download.
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