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Title	:	City of Bohane
Author	:	Kevin Barry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 277 pages
Published	:	March 31st 2011 by Jonathan Cape
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. European Literature. Irish Literature. Fantasy. Science Fiction. Dystopia

City of Bohane Paperback | Pages: 277 pages

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Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award 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 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.

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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)

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Kevin Barry is well known for his short stories. He has a vivid imagination and is an excellent wordsmith, crafting some lovely, expressive prose. City of Bohane has received high praise from some of Irelands literary stars such as Roddy Doyle, Joseph OConnor and Hugo Hamilton. I therefore had high expectations for Barrys first novel. With the exception of the prose and some of the characterisation, for me, it failed to deliver. For the most part, the characters are difficult to identify with

i do not know if you will like this book. usually, i am pretty good with the readers' advisory thing - i have this innate sense that automatically provides me with a list of names of people i think would appreciate the book, even if i didn't like it myself. call it a gift.but this one - i am genuinely at a loss. i know that i liked it, but i also know that i am a little bit damaged from having read it. like my brain has been mooshed a little and i have had a hard time readjusting.so it takes

Kevin Barry is going to be somebody. That's what I thought when I read his apocalyptic short story in The New Yorker, Fjord of Killary, a year or two ago. This sent me searching the web, where I found his previous short story collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, available from a small Irish literary press by way of an independent overseas bookseller. Kevin Barry already is somebody, I thought when I read those tales: He's an heir to William Trevor, like Banville and Toibin. But this one's ten

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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 no

City of Bohane takes place 40 years in the future, in a fictional Irish town by the name of Bohane. Some kind of socioeconomic calamity has taken place and the 'distant' past is referred to as "the lost times". It's unclear exactly what has transpired to bring Bohane to it's knees, but all indications are that it was something, as i say, of an economic collapse. The result is that the town is largely run by several gangs that coexist in a fragile detente. Law and order is largely impotent and

While reading this book I was reminded of what it's like to read William Gibson's Neuromancer for the first time. At first it's a little unclear what the meat of the story is, but if you just hang on and let the rhythm and cadence of the prose take you for a ride, you will find yourself in a new and fascinating place. And what a place; Bohane is a weird and wild mash-up of Jamaican shanty-towns, Soviet tenements, and Little Italy and Chinatown. It's true that the plot and characters are lacking