KEVIN BARRY has won acclaim for his plays and short stories and his CV also boasts screenplays, graphic stories, and essays. Now he adds novelist to that list.
Kevin Barry will launch his debut novel City of Bohane in the Druid Lane theatre on Friday April 15 at 5pm as part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.
The novel is set in the 2050s in a small and murderous west of Ireland city. It tells of gang feuds and old love affairs, city politics, vice and treachery, fashion and violence, and of all the strange alliances that keep a city together.
Joseph O’Connor has called it “a startling masterpiece” while Niall Griffiths says the book “beautifully illustrates the mad glory of the human imagination. It should be met with parties and parades and pyrotechnics”.
Barry’s collection of stories, There Are Little Kingdoms, was published in 2007 and awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker and many other journals and anthologies around the world.
Admission to the launch is free and all are welcome.
