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(0)Kevin Barry
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Language
English
Description
"In 1891 Montana, Tom Rourke, a young poet and ballad-maker, and Polly Gillspie, the new bride of an extremely devout mine captain, falling madly in love, strike out west on a stolen horse, but with a posse of deranged gunmen in hot pursuit, the choices they make will haunt them forever"-- NoveList Plus.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen--Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs-- sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, 2018, and they are expecting Maurice's estranged daughter, Dilly, to either arrive on a boat coming from Tangier or depart on one heading there. Their conversations cause them...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With three novels and two short story collections published, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the finest writers not just in Ireland but in the English language. All of his prodigious gifts of language, character, and setting in these eleven exquisite stories transport the reader to an Ireland both timeless and recognizably modern. Shot through with dark humor and the uncanny power of the primal and unchanging Irish landscape,...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
277 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Set 40 years in the future, the once great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is in terminal decline, with vice and tribal splits rife. Logan Hartnett, godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang has been in charge but his nemesis has arrived back in town, his henchmen are becoming ambitious, his wife wants him to give it all up and go straight and, he has his mother to contend with.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This is a collection of 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
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Lazy Schnitzel is apprenticed to a famous wizard, and when a salesman selling vacuum cleaners offers to help clean house, Schnitzel accepts, but finds trouble when he realizes the salesman is a vampire.
8) Ghost cat
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : colored illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
After his death, Sailor Boy decided to stay at Port Carrick lighthouse with his friend, the lighthouse keeper, and when disaster strikes, he is there to help.
9) Monday
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Poor Monday. Everyone knows he's the worst. Every other day of the week has something wonderful about them. So Monday tries his best to get people to like him. Finally, he decides to just not show up. But Monday realizes that everyone has a job to do in a week"-- Provided by publisher.