Beatlebone
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
John Lennon compró una isla en Irlanda. Ésta es la historia del fascinante viaje que hizo diez años después para encontrar la isla, pero sobre todo para encontrarse a sí mismo.
Huyendo de la prensa, Lennon intenta calmar el espíritu y superar así los fantasmas que lo persiguen y le bloquean la creatividad. Para lograr esto, un conductor irlandés de lo más peculiar le hará de guía espiritual improvisado.
Después de Ciudad de Bohane, Beatlebone (obra ganadora del Premio Goldsmith 2015) es la segunda incursión de Kevin Barry en el campo de la novela, con resultados igualmente extraordinarios. Con un dominio sublime del lenguaje y de los personajes, Barry nos muestra al Lennon más auténtico, el de humor cambiante y el ánimo atribulado, y nos sumerge en la exploración del pasado propio, los orígenes, lo que hemos hecho y lo que hemos dejado por hacer.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In his second novel, Barry (City of Bohane) imagines John Lennon in the year 1978, deep in a funk and trying to visit Dorinish, aka Beatle Island an island in Clew Bay, in the west of Ireland, that Lennon owned. But the press is on his tail, the weather is terrible, and all the islands look alike. Lennon and his Irish driver, Cornelius, lie low, go to a local bar (where Lennon is passed off as Cousin Kenneth from England), and, mostly, talk. Not much happens there is rain, wind, and mist; Lennon has recurring thoughts of his parents and the Liverpool of his youth; there's an acrid encounter with some '60s holdouts. The talk, however, is beautiful: half prose, half song. It's Irish and sentimental and sly and funny and obscene, covering suicidal cows, the pleasures of cough medicine, The Muppet Show, and the way certain places exert a palpable emotional pull. Two chapters are outliers: a funny/grim one set later on, with Lennon trying to make a record, and one covering Barry's own time in Liverpool and Dorinish. This latter section, odd and lovely, seems like it could have been an author's note, but it pays off, reminding us how writing merges memory and imagination to connect the living and the dead.
