City of Bohane : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 1555976085
- ISBN: 9781555976088
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Physical Description:
277 p. : maps ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Maps on lining papers. Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2011. |
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Subject: | Gangs Ireland Fiction |
Genre: | Humorous fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | F BARRY (Text) | 000100748 | Fiction | Available | - |
City of Bohane : A Novel
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City of Bohane : A Novel
* Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Book Award in the First Novel category * A blazingly original, wildly stylish, and pulpy debut novel " City of Bohane , the extraordinary first novel by the Irish writer Kevin Barry, is full of marvels. They are all literary marvels, of course: marvels of language, invention, surprise. Savage brutality is here, but so is laughter. And humanity. And the abiding ache of tragedy." -- Pete Hamill, The New York Times Book Review (front page) Forty or so years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are the posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the North Rises, and the eerie bogs of the Big Nothin' that the city really lives. For years it has all been under the control of Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But there's trouble in the air. They say Hartnett's old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious; and his missus wants him to give it all up and go straight.