![]() Then, after 200 pages, the author/narrator breaks in and explains how he has tried “to spring a story” from some historical facts. ![]() He has brilliant, funny, almost musical dialogue with Cornelius. In the course of this miniodyssey, John’s mind wends through his past, growing up in Liverpool, a girlfriend named Julia, and his Irish antecedents. There, John, a veteran of primal scream therapy, encounters people who believe screaming and ranting at one another is good for the soul and psyche. When he arrives in western Ireland, he learns that reporters are in pursuit, and he struggles to dodge them with the help of his driver/facilitator, Cornelius, who stashes him at one point in the strange Amethyst Hotel. Here, he looks back almost 40 years as he imagines a 37-year-old John Lennon hoping he can cure a creative block with a few days alone on the tiny island he owns. ![]() A famous musician’s 1978 pilgrimage to an island off the west coast of Ireland takes several detours, abetted by his memories and his minder, in this original, lyrical, genre-challenging work.īarry set his remarkable first novel, City of Bohane (2011), some 40 years in the future. ![]()
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