- Title:
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City of Bohane (MP3)
- Written by:
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Kevin Barry
- Read by:
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Kevin Barry
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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8 hours 42 minutes
- MP3 size:
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381 MB
- Published:
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July 01 2012
- Available Date:
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July 01 2012
- Age Category:
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Adult - Explicit
- ISBN:
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9781743118771
- Genres:
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Fiction; Crime & Thriller; General Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
Shortlisted Costa Book Award 2011
Winner International DUBLIN Literary Award 2013
“The best novel to come out of Ireland since Ulysses.”
Irvine Welsh
“[Barry’s] work is hilarious and unpredictable – and always brilliant.”
Aaron Beck, Psychiatrist
A debut novel from a rising star in Irish literature.
Forty 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 on the eerie bogs of Big Nothin’ that Bohane 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 henchman is 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 unique and visionary novel that blends influence 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 startlingly new.
“Kevin Barry is the real thing, and nothing can stop him.”
David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"An electrifying masterpiece"
Aaron Beck, Psychiatrist
"Astonishing.This marks him out as a writer of great promise"
The Guardian