CITY OF BOHANE by Kevin Barry (2012) SIGNED+DATED+NYC ~ First Ed, First Printing

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Signed + Dated + NYC , Brand New, First Edition, First Printing, Hardcover/Dust Jacket, List: $25 City of Bohane Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Book Award in the First Novel category by Kevin Barry Kevin Barry was born in Limerick in 1969 and now lives in Dublin. His short fiction has appeared widely on both sides of the Atlantic, most recently in The New Yorker . City of Bohane is his first novel. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED by the author, in my presence, to full title page. No inscription; full signature + 04/26/12 + NYC only. From an event with Sheila Langan in New York City on April 26, 2012. BONUSES: The event schedule from the book store that hosted this event + a copy of one book reviews are included. Please only bid if you will pay within five days of auction's end. All domestic sales of $25 or more will be wrapped and shipped in a box. Shipping & Handling for USPS Media Mail is $3.95 (includes Delivery C onfirmation) Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelope is $6.95 (includes Delivery Confirmation) Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail International Flat Rate Envelope is $17.95 I provide the highest quality author signed, first edition books. 100% authentic guaranteed - This is my COA "Certificate of Authenticity". I won't sell any signed book that I'm not 100% sure is hand signed by the author. I attended this Kevin Barry with Sheila Langan event in New York City on April 26, 2012. I'm not happy unless you are! Please email any questions. Thanks! "In prose that is both dense and flowing, Barry takes us on a roaring journey, among human beings who are trapped in life its own damned self. . . . None of it is real, yet all of it feels true. This powerful, exuberant fiction is as true as the Macondo of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Yoknapatawpha County of William Faulkner and, in a different way, even the Broadway of Damon Runyon. Those places were not real. The stories remain true." — Pete Hamill, The New York Times Book Review (front cover) "Roll up Joyce, Dickens, Anthony Burgess and Marty Scorsese, sprinkle with a dash of Terry Gilliam, and smoke up. That's roughly the literary experience to be had from ingesting this marvelously mashed-up creation. . . . Barry's addictive dialect and faultless confidence make this volatile novel a rare treat." — Kirkus Reviews “The best novel to come out of Ireland since Ulysses.” — Irvine Welsh "Although Barry has set this bewitching, stylized noir pageant of underworld dynastic upheaval in the grim near-future, it has a timeless air, with spookily beautiful evocations of ancient Irish mythology and an elegiac sense of civilization's attenuation while the old, bred-in-the-bones urges are resurgent." — Booklist ( ***Starred Review*** )"Barry seems to relish splashing around in the literary mud puddles left behind by language-obsessed writers like Flann O'Brian, Cormac McCarthy, and Irvine Welsh. Meanwhile, an equally passionate love of film (think Quentin Tarantino and Sergio Leone) casts a flickering shadow over Barry's fictional world's pop culture crashes into language, and they are both dressed to the nines." — Shelf Awareness " City of Bohane offers a dystopian vision that is splendidly drawn if not shockingly inventive. . . . [Barry's] descriptions are notably vibrant (a December day is 'as miserable as hell's scullery') and his syntax strikingly creative." — Cleveland Plain Dealer , Grade: A "This wild-ass ripsnorter, set in Ireland about 40 years from now, is a bravura, Nabokovian mind-blower. . . . It's elegiac, lyrical, rollicking fun that mixes Brian Friel with A Clockwork Orange ." — Library Journal , "Books for Dudes"The novel reads as if China Mieville and Irvine Welsh had collaborated to update Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest . . . . [Barry] succeeds with a continual barrage of hybrid language reminiscent of Anthony Burgess at his A Clockwork Orange best... read more

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