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| Original Title: | City of Bohane |
| ISBN: | 0224090577 (ISBN13: 9780224090575) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Costa Book Award Nominee for First Novel (2011), Authors' Club Best First Novel Award (2012), International Dublin Literary Award (2013) |
Kevin Barry
Paperback | Pages: 277 pages Rating: 3.83 | 3266 Users | 506 Reviews
Identify Of Books City of Bohane
| Title | : | City of Bohane |
| Author | : | Kevin Barry |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 277 pages |
| Published | : | March 31st 2011 by Jonathan Cape |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. European Literature. Irish Literature. Fantasy. Science Fiction. Dystopia |
Explanation As Books City of Bohane
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel AwardForty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are the posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin' that the city really lives.
For years, the city has been in the cool grip of Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But there's trouble in the air. They say his old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious; and his missus wants him to give it all up and go straight... And then there's his mother.
City of Bohane is a visionary novel that blends influences from film and the graphic novel, from Trojan beats and calypso rhythms, from Celtic myth and legend, from fado and the sagas, and from all the great inheritance of Irish literature. A work of mesmerising imagination and vaulting linguistic invention, it is a taste of the glorious and new.
Rating Of Books City of Bohane
Ratings: 3.83 From 3266 Users | 506 ReviewsDiscuss Of Books City of Bohane
A place should never for too long go against its nature.Bohane. Mid-21st century after some un-named calamity which has affected Ireland and, apparently, Britain also. Perhaps the rest of the world? That is one of the conceits of this sci-fi steampunk something novel, the first by the wonderful Kevin Barry. Bohane is a wicked city...think San Francisco of Barbary Coast fame in the 19th century. Everyone has a game, an angle to play and safety and security are part of the Lost-Time.There are noProfane, cinematic, hilarious, elegiac, brutal, poetic, original. I found City of Bohane to be all these things and more. The language is amazing. It took me a chapter or two to adjust to the vernacular Kevin Barry's characters employ, but it was well worth the effort. (You can view the author reading from the book at http://vimeo.com/28112291) At the center of the story is the struggle between rival gangs for control of the Irish city of Bohane, but there are also several fascinating subplots
What a tasty feast this was! I suspect this book will either be devoured with great relish or it will have you demanding to be excused from the table - pronto. Be prepared for something different from almost any other book you might pick up to read. A fresh idea, what a novelty! As the story opens, the city 'had taken to the winter like an old dog to its blanket'. Bohane is over-run with street gangs. The reader will need to hang tough with the street jargon and just roll with it. Context is
Whatever's wrong with us is coming in off that river. No argument: the taint of badness in the city's air is a taint off that river. This is the Bohane river we're talking about. A blackwater surge, malevolent, it roars in off the Big Nothin' wastes and the city was spawned by it and was named for it: city of Bohane. Set in a near-future (2053), vaguely post-apocalyptic fictional city on Ireland's west coast, City of Bohane is fueled by sex, drugs, and gang violence, written in language
As a high school teacher, I'm taking a summer class on on teaching reading and we reviewed a list of the 'pleasures of reading.' And the first two had to do with the pleasure associated with knowing the correspondences between letters and sounds and the pleasure of the sounds themselves as you read aloud. Barry's novel, for all it's atmosphere and impact in the literary circles, reminds me of those first two pleasures. Barry is mostly known as a short story writer, and it shows. On each page the
This is my second experience of Kevin Barry - I read the equally compelling and original but very different Beatlebone in January. This one is a mixture of genres that I would normally steer well clear of - gangland thriller, dystopian fantasy, steampunk and graphic novel cliches abound. What carries it is the sheer vibrancy and humour of the language and the many cultural reference points that echo the likes of Joyce and Flann O'Brien.The setting is the fictional city of Bohane, on the west
Absolutely pure and filthy electricity and lyrical canniness blended with an anachronistic and futuristic street argot that whirls past in echoes of Burgess and patois and old Irish lanes. City of Bohane is a masterpiece of a piece, and its story is a kaleidoscope of sci-fi and gangster elements as sweeping as the rapids of a river to read. I loved this story, and these characters (Fucker Burke! Wolfie Stanners! The Gant! The Long Fella!), and will read anything Kevin Barry ever writes from here
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