In addition to Beatlebone, Kevin Barry is the author of the novel City Of Bohane and the story collections Dark Lies The Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. Yoko Ono, Lennon’s wife, eventually sold the property in 1984. Legendary Beatles musician John Lennon actually purchased this uninhabited property, known as “Beatle Island” or “Hippie Island,” and owned it until his death in 1980. The Guardian calls the novel “a lyrical exploration of love, fate and death.” Regarding Barry’s writing, The New York Times praises his “razor-sharp prose, powerful poetics and a dramatist’s approach to dialogue unencumbered by punctuation.”Kevin Barry’s second novel, Beatlebone, follows a fictional John Lennon as he travels in 1978 to Dorninish, his small private island located off the west coast of Ireland. Yoko Ono, Lennon’s wife, eventually sold the property in 1984.īeatlebone consists of Lennon’s conversations and adventures with his driver, Cornelius O’Grady, as the pair avoids pitfalls with the weather and the media to deliver Lennon to Dorninish. Kevin Barry’s second novel, Beatlebone, follows a fictional John Lennon as he travels in 1978 to Dorninish, his small private island located off the west coast of Ireland. The reading, which is free and open to the public, concludes the 2016-2017 Fund for Irish Studies series at Princeton University.
at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Author Kevin Barry will read from his novel Beatlebone on Friday, April 28 at 4:30 p.m.
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