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Beatlebone by Kevin Barry Book Beatlebone by Kevin Barry book Ebook Beatlebone currently available for review only, if you need complete ebook Beatlebone please fill out registration form to access in our databases Download here >> Paperback:::: 320 pages+++Publisher:::: Anchor; Reprint edition (October 4, 2016)+++Language:::: English+++ISBN-10:::: 1101911336+++ISBN-13:::: 978-1101911334+++Product Dimensions::::5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches++++++ ISBN10 1101911336 ISBN13 978-1101911 Download here >> Description: A 2015 New York Times Notable BookWinner of the Goldsmiths PrizeIt is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought eleven years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to calm his unquiet soul 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, a surreal novel that blends fantasy and reality—a Hibernian high wire act of courage, nerve, and great beauty. (4.5 stars) On his way to Dorinish, the tiny Irish island which he bought ten years before, John Lennon, now thirty-seven, is in the midst of a personal crisis. It is 1978, and the Beatles have not been together for eight years. Lennon has watched his first marriage crumble and his son Julian disappear from his life. His second marriage, to Yoko Ono in 1969, has endured a separation of eighteen months. He has not written any music since 1975, and he feels as if he has lost his way, both musically and personally, but he now feels that if he can get away and spend time alone for only three days on Dorinish, that he might become newly inspired.Author Kevin Barry, who has shared some of Lennon’s own experiences, from living in Liverpool for two years (“one of the most sentimental cities on earth,”) to traveling to Lennon’s island, comes as close to illustrating the idea of “channeling” as it may be possible for an author to get, and in his hands, Lennon becomes real on all levels – his hopes, dreams, insecurities, frustrations, and even his arrogance as he returns to Ireland from New York. Lennon has hired a car and driver, Cornelius O’Grady, whose primary job is to get Lennon to the island while avoiding the press, and in O’Grady, Barry has also created one of the great literary characters, endowed with consummate charm, wild humor, a sense of irony, and an appreciation of nature’s “magic,” the perfect foil for Lennon with his intense self-analysis.Miserable weather and atmosphere, described in bleak but nevertheless lyrical passages, lead to complications and cause several delays for the trip to the island. On one occasion, Cornelius persuades Lennon to play the role of his cousin Kenny and, in disguise appear at a small, strictly local pub, where the next morning he does not remember singing. On another occasion, they stay at a local hotel in Achill, run by a “guru” who conducts “rants” for those who have already done Primal Scream Therapy. Frustrated, Lennon escapes, later occupying a cave overnight and talking with a seal. Gradually, through these mystical experiences, he begins to feel some of his lost inspiration.Barry spent much time studying Lennon’s intonations and speech patterns, some of which appear here in Lennon’s poor grammar. Barry also identifies with Lennon’s search for answers to the mysteries of life with all its supernatural elements, asking himself, “How do you bring up the fact of ghosts in reasonable company, especially the reasonable company of one’s readers?” The conclusion, which is a bit weaker than the rest of the novel, suggests that despite the opportunities which Lennon believes have opened to him on this trip, and despite the new understandings which Barry suggests Lennon has come to, that his hopes of creating something new and exciting will be dashed. Lennon never produced the “Beatlebone” album which he sketched out – or any other new album. 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