Dark Lies the Island: Stories - Softcover

Barry, Professor Of English Literature Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555976883 ISBN 13: 9781555976880

Publisher: Graywolf Press, 2015

Synopsis

Kevin Barry's deliciously wicked collection Dark Lies the Island delivers on the many reckless promises made by his virtuosic and prizewinning debut novel, City of Bohane. It firmly establishes him as both a world-class word slinger and a masterful storyteller.

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Review:

"[Kevin Barry] isn't sparing with his powers. Even his throwaway lines are keepers." --The New York Times

"He does humor. He does high drama. He even dabbles in horror (of a kind). And he can handle just about any other narrative form you might think of." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

"Barry's best short stories are like a spade to the face . . . [He] earns comparison with the great and shamefully neglected V. S. Pritchett, whose short stories also employed pronounced comic means for serious, compassionate ends." --The Guardian

"Outstanding . . . [These] stories triumph . . . They are funny, sad, troubling, illuminating, often in equal measure." --Financial Times

"By the end of a story, Barry has me in full sympathy with someone I might edge away from on the train. His regard for characters big and small and capacity to be funny without playing them for cheap laughs recalls George Saunders." --The New York Times Book Review

"Stealthy and shimmering . . . Darkness abounds in these thirteen stories, though it takes its different forms: vileness, foreboding, ignorance, isolation, self-delusion, despair." --The Boston Globe

"Barry is a prose wizard whose stories pulse on the page with all the humor and viciousness of life itself." --Sam Lipsyte, The Millions

"[Kevin Barry's] prose is almost literally indescribable . . . It's not hard to see a devoted following accrue around this singular talent." --Irish Independent

"A startlingly unique voice." --Observer (London)

Book Description:

A new book from the winner of the 2012 Sunday Times/EFG Private Bank Short Story Prize

About this edition

• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1555976883
• ISBN 13: 9781555976880
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192