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Dark Lies the Island / by Kevin Barry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Vintage, 2013.Description: 185 p. 20cmISBN:
  • 9780099575078 (pbk.)
  • 0099575078 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823 BAR
Contents:
Across the rooftops -- Wifey redux -- Fjord of Killary -- A cruelty -- Beer trip to llandudno -- Ernestine and Kit -- The mainland campaign -- Wistful England -- Doctor Sot -- The girls and the dogs -- White hitachi -- Dark lies the island -- Berlin arkonaplatz -- my lesbian summer.
Summary: This is a collection of unpredictable stories about love and cruelty, crimes, desperation, and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as 'the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years'.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan Moylish Library Fiction Collection 823 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100658575

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Winner of the Sunday Times short story prize

Winner of the Edge Hill short story prize


A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie-snatchers, and scouse real-ale enthusiasts, and occult weirdness in the backwoods...

Dark Lies the Island is a collection of unpredictable stories about love and cruelty, crimes, desperation, and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as 'the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years'. Every page is shot through with the riotous humour, sympathy and blistering language that mark Kevin Barry as a pure entertainer and a unique teller of tales.

Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2012.

Across the rooftops -- Wifey redux -- Fjord of Killary -- A cruelty -- Beer trip to llandudno -- Ernestine and Kit -- The mainland campaign -- Wistful England -- Doctor Sot -- The girls and the dogs -- White hitachi -- Dark lies the island -- Berlin arkonaplatz -- my lesbian summer.

This is a collection of unpredictable stories about love and cruelty, crimes, desperation, and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as 'the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years'.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Kevin Barry was born in 1969 in Ireland. He is the author of two collections of short stories and the novel City of Bohane. He started out as a frelance journalist writing a column for the Irish Examiner. He soon focused all of his time on writing. In 2007 he won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for his short story collection There are Little Kingdoms. In 2011 he released his debut novel City of Bohane, which was followed in 2012 by the short story collection Dark Lies the Island. Barry won the International Dublin Literary Award for his novel City of Bohane in 2013. He also won the Goldsmiths Prize 2015 with his title Beatlebone.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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