5/27/2023 0 Comments Beatlebone by Kevin BarryIt’s also full of gutsy-good humour and some of the snappiest profanity-ridden dialogue you’ll ever read. The sensational aspect of this tale gradually moves aside to reveal a deeply-effective meditation on the search for meaning. His well-meaning philosophical driver takes him on his journey, but Lennon is diverted by the press which hounds him, drunken nights at the pub, a dog he dubs with the name Brian Wilson and a small new-age group living in an island’s dilapidated hotel who engage in a disturbingly confrontational practice called “the rants.” All the while Lennon craves nothing but solitude and to escape the newly popular sound of Kate Bush singing about her wily, windy moors. But there’s a problem Ireland gets in his way. Now the artistically-frustrated famous singer wants nothing more than to spend a few days there to practice his primal scream therapy he learned in California. This is an island he purchased years ago hoping to establish an arts community there, but which has remained nothing but a weather-beaten desolate pile of rocks. In 1978 John Lennon travels across Ireland trying to reach an island so he can scream. The premise of Kevin Barry’s novel “Beatlebone” is irresistible.
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