Kevin Barry

"Stories of rural Ireland in the classic mode: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic"--

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That Old Country Music

'One of the best collections you'll read this year' Sunday Times'Wild, witty stories . . . Exhilarating' ObserverIn this rapturous story collection we encounter a ragbag of west of Ireland characters, many on the cusp between love and catastrophe, heartbreak and epiphany, resignation and hope. These stories affirm Kevin Barry as one of the world's most accomplished and gifted writers, and show an Ireland in a condition of great flux but also as a place where older rhythms, and an older magic, somehow persist.

Ketevan Marr

Great writing that exudes Irish life, but it's so painfully obvious that these stories were written by a man. Particularly Coast of Leistrum, Deer Season, Old Stock, and That Old Country Music. Ox Mountain in Death Song felt like an ode to toxic masculinity. Who's-Dead McCarthy was good.

That Old Country Music Stories

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