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I stumbled across Barry's earlier book, City of Bohane, and loved his use of language so much that I resolved to track down all his fiction. This was the next one I came across, and it's got the same dancing language and melancholy lean to it. It's no surprise that Barry's also a playwright, as the book opens with a running dialogue (or almost more of a monologue as duet) between two 50ish men from Cork that would be right at home on a stage. Friends since teen years and partners in drug-running
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Hauntingly sad.
Sorry, but I just don't understand the supposed hype over this book. Really had a hard time following it, getting interested in the characters, and the plot? What plot? What real development of the main characters? The most interesting thing about it was reading about the Algericas Port where the ferries from/to Tangier, Morocco come/go--since we went through this port in Jan 2020. But even that was a let-down, from pretty much every angle. Fun to read about the escalator that went up to the caf
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I’m not sure why this book was confusing to me. Maybe I need to reread when a different frame of mind.
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