Dark Lies the Island Pdf Summary
A new book from the winner of the 2012 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Prize.
A kiss that just won’t happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie-snatchers, scouse real-ale enthusiasts, and occult weirdness in the backwoods.
Dark Lies the Island pdf book is a collection of unpredictable stories about love and cruelty, crimes, desperation, and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as ‘the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years’. Every page is shot through with the riotous humour, sympathy and blistering language that mark Kevin Barry as a pure entertainer and a unique teller of tales.
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Dark Lies the Island Review
5.0 out of 5 stars Strong Stuff. Six point two percent to volume.
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2012
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“Fjord of Killary,” the first short story by Kevin Barry to reach these shores, showed up in the February 1, 2010, issue of the New Yorker. It sent me looking for “There Are Little Kingdoms,” his 2007 collection of stories published in Ireland but not here. “Dark Lies the Island”, Barry’s second collection of stories, includes the 2010 New Yorker story and several other pungent treats including “Beer Trip to Llandudo” which won a 2012 London Sunday Times Short Story contest notable for both the honor bestowed and the prize (nearly $50,000).
There are thirteen stories in the new collection. The “Fjord of Killary” finds the patrons of the Water’s Edge Hotel — mostly “tough, knarly, west of Ireland” hill country people – holed up for the duration of a “particularly violent” storm, “an hysterical downpour, with great sheets of water streaming down from Mweelrea” which soon enough flooded the lower floors of the Hotel. Free drinks and the excitement generated by their predicament sustain the group while they await the outcome.
The prize story, “Beer Trip to Llandudo” is a gem, a story on a par with “Breakfast Wine” — the pick of “Lttle Kingdoms.” There, unless a third alcoholic is found to complement the two regular denizens of The North Star pub, it will be put on the block, and therein lies the tale. In “Llandudo”, Barry presents us with the six members of the Real Ale Club, Lime Street, Aigburth, Liverpool on an ale tasting excursion to the old seaside resort town of Llandudo, Wales, at the height of summer. Here, to give you some idea of the clubs exploits, are the names of the ales consumed along their way that day: “Marston’s Old Familiar” (case), “Phoenix Tram Driver” (on cask), “Bellhaven Bombardier” (one round), “Cornish Lightning” (a round), “Lancaster Bomber” (from the pump), St. Austell Tributes” (a round), “Whitstable Silver Star” (6.2 percent to volume), “Miner’s Slattern” (on cask) and “Cumberland Pedigrees” (3.4 percent). As Big John put it at the end of the day, “We’ve supped some quality ale.”
The understated badinage among the members is nothing short of masterful, particularly considering the rate at which they took on ale.
“Real Ale Club would not have marked Mo for a romancer.”
” `The quiet ones you watch,” said Tom N. `Maurice?’ “
” `Mo? With a piece?’ whispered Everett Bell”
Many of the other stories, including the title story “Dark Lies the Island,” feel more sinister. Roddy Doyle, who provides a cover blurb, achieved a similar sense of lurking evil in his 1996 novel “The Woman Who Ran into Doors.” “White Hitachi” and “Doctor Sot” deal with forlorn lives as does Barry in his just published story “Ox Mountain Death Song” (in the October 29, 2012 New Yorker). The Irish Times describes the darker stories in the new collection as “horrifically realistic narratives.”
End Note. “Dark Lies the Island” apparently has not been published in the U.S. The accompanying cover illustration is from the English edition. Nevertheless, it is readily available from Amazon through its UK Book Depository at the standard U.S. shipping rate of $3.99. My copy came in less than ten days, much faster than the original estimated time of arrival.
About Kevin Barry Author Of Dark Lies the Island pdf Book
Kevin Barry is the Author Of Dark Lies the Island pdf Book. He is is an Irish writer. He is the author of two collections of short stories, and the novel City of Bohane, which was the winner of the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Dark Lies the Island pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Graywolf Press; First Edition (September 24, 2013)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 192 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1555976514
- ISBN-13 : 978-1555976514
- Item Weight : 13 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.14 x 1.11 x 8.49 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #745,655 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #11,561 in Short Stories (Books)
- #33,115 in Literary Fiction (Books)
- Customer Reviews: 4.4 out of 5 stars 262 ratings
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