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`**** I can see the film already. If it's a patch on the book, it'll be a cracker' --RTE Guide
`This is a startlingly and imaginative debut novel from one of Ireland's most talented new writers' --Irish Post
`Cool, culty and futuristic novel set in a crime-ravaged Irish city and starring a crime lord beset by threats to his power. A book that has language all of its own' --Waterstone's Books Quarterly
`Kevin Barry's Bohane is a thoroughly well-realised cartoon world. Or graphic novel world, with pictures you create for yourself using the generous array of material Barry puts at your disposal ... Plots and characters from Mad Max and Gangs of New York , and the story songs of Bob Dylan and Tom Waits; atmosphere from Sergio Leone and Tarantino and Jack Yeats paintings. Mechanics from The Wire and Cormac McCarthy. Swagger from showband dance halls ...Beautiful, arresting, precise ... a compelling creation' --Irish Times, Keith Ridgway
`City of Bohane is a book fizzing with energy, juiced up on the possibilities of language and replete with a plot that, as Barry admits, could have come straight from John Ford...It's the language - the spark of the dialogue, the metallic flash and glitter of the novel's voice, the pleasure of its patois - that I'm hooked by' --Glasgow Herald, Interview with Teddy Jamieson
`A grotesquely comedic gothic romp'
--Irish Sunday Times, Interview with Ed Power
`...he makes a bold statement, not only about his considerable talent but also his plot to upend the realm of modern Irish literature with a work of such singular scope and voice that it is bound to be the talk of book circles this year and possibly beyond. His language is startling, somehow a physical presence. It coils and releases itself or grooves hypnotically before breaking into a frantic spasm of description and dialogue. The gears in your brain are being shifted around and you're enjoying the feeling. It will go on to teach valuable lessons to Barry's successors, reminding them of the places the written word can bring you to... Those people who harbor ambitions to write a book are usually made to reassess things when writers like Kevin Barry pop up on the radar. As of this book's publication, he is a game-changer, someone who will perch annoyingly at the back of the minds of Irish literature's up-and-comers whispering "must try harder"' --Sunday Independent, 15 May 2011, Hilary A White
`...Barry's characters use a rich, profane slang that invigorates his prose...' --The Irish News, May 2011
`Kevin Barry is a great storyteller, and the twists and turns of City of Bohane are satisfying...one of the most intriguing things about City of Bohane - and Barry underplays this beautifully - is its lack of technology...Barry's vernacular, like his plot, is a wonderful blend of past, present and imagined future...sometimes the words are doing backflips and spinning on their heads. Sometimes they are just watching...that Barry has control over all these registers, and makes them his own, is quite astonishing. This debut marks him out as a writer of great promise' --Saturday Guardian, 14 May 2011, Scarlett Thomas
'The narrative voice is clipped and chummy, and makes use of apt tropes... The novel's principal act of betrayal is well disguised and expertly revealed.' --TLS, Mark Kamine
`The book unfolds like a film with bursts of violence, surreal conversation and beautifully woven descriptions of a city lost in the clutches of vice and violence, and builds into a multi-stranded epic gang war in the great tradition of films Scorsese himself would be proud of.' --Booktrust
'Volatile prose, text-speak and Irish coinages add to the success of this zingy debut novel.' --Sunday Times Culture
`Part crime/gangster succession saga, part nostalgic ballad, part love-story and part homage to the beauty and elasticity of the English language, City of Bohane is a hard one to describe- but that's what makes it so exhilarating to read...This isn't a place where you'd want to wash up-but it is the stuff of brilliant literature... Barry's real genius is in his reinvention of language- the way he's taken the already distinctive Irish aural vernacular and twisted it- wrapped it around a jazzy riff and made it his own. It's foul-mouthed and brutal elegiac... Linguistically innovative, somewhat challenging and definitely different from, anything else doing the rounds this spring.' --Bookmunch
`The plot is engrossing, with strong bones, yet sinuous and surprising. Logan, Gant and Macu are fantastic. Technicolour and loud, and so well drawn that their reality becomes yours... Barry plays with words with a manic joy and it's this use of language that draws the reader in. For his new world he coins a new slag so believable you can roll it around your tongue.'
--Timeout
'Addictive first novel... this slangy, plosive-packed prose is what makes the book a success...an expert manipulation of syntax keeps things zingy... it is a plus point that the dystopia bears no allegorical weight, thriving purely as an imaginary realm to be taken at face value.' --Sunday Times
`This is a darkly funny tale of gangland warfare in Ireland that reads like a fast-paced film.' --Cosmopolitan
`It's hilarious and visceral.'
--Financial Times
`City of Bohane is the exuberant, spine-tinglingly atmospheric creation of Limerick-born Kevin Barry, whose first foray into novels has been eagerly awaited by fans of his award-winning short stories... This hyper-real world stuffed with overblown violence and all manner of cartoon-like grotesques is certainly a highly entertaining place to lose yourself in.' --Metro
`Barry recalls not only Joyce and Miller but Anthony Burgess, Brett Easton Ellis and even Dylan Thomas too. All of these influences in no way overshadow Barry's unique voice which is inventive, exhilarating and entirely sustained throughout this riot of a novel. He has created a location and characters as vivid as in Thomas's Milk Wood, an idiomatic language as realised as Burgess' nadsat in A Clockwork Orange and writes with the purpose and poetry that Irish writers seem to be born with... the dialogue is hilarious, the descriptions fantastically rich and the overall effect completely immersive... I enjoyed every single second I spent in Bohane and might just have picked up a bit of the taint whilst I was there, y'check me?' --Just William's Luck
'Exhilarating new work... this novel confirms the arrival of a fresh and original voice in Irish literature... Although the book has a compelling narrative flow, its primary delight is the freshness and vitality of language - especially the relentlessly colourful dialogue... [A]hugely entertaining and original novel.' --Irish Sunday Times
`The prose is sizzling, its molecules rocked by the force of collision...[Kevin Barry is an] outrageously talented author... The power of the writing - of the writer's imagination - is the siren call that hooks you... It stuns you with its daring...but it works.'
--The Scotsman
`His inventiveness with language, organic sense of humour and reality fuse together to make for a near-brilliant first novel' --Platform
'Barry's characters use a rich, profane slang that invigorates his prose.' --Norwich Evening News
`So it is (perhaps a little perversely) a genuine surprise when a debut as brashly hailed as City of Bohane is as impressive as it's promised to be...Barry is a writer of considerable comic and stylistic gifts. His novel is a work of pure and unrestrained imagination, both in its linguistic resourcefulness and its vivid depiction of a small, crime-ridden west of Ireland city...a wild vision of comic-book lawlessness...Barry's rich and wholly convincing patois is one-part film noir tough talk, one-part contemporary Limerick vernacular and several parts sheer exuberant invention. Barry is firmly in possession of his own distinct voice...its violence and shallowness are a major part of its queasy appeal.'
--Sunday Business Post (Eire)
`Barry's characters use a rich, profane slang that invigorates his prose.' --Norwich Evening News
`So it is (perhaps a little perversely) a genuine surprise when a debut as brashly hailed as City of Bohane is as impressive as it's promised to be...Barry is a writer of considerable comic and stylistic gifts. His novel is a work of pure and unrestrained imagination, both in its linguistic resourcefulness and its vivid depiction of a small, crime-ridden west of Ireland city...a wild vision of comic-book lawlessness...Barry's rich and wholly convincing patois is one-part film noir tough talk, one-part contemporary Limerick vernacular and several parts sheer exuberant invention. Barry is firmly in possession of his own distinct voice...its violence and shallowness are a major part of its queasy appeal.' --Sunday Business Post (Eire)
'a zingy debut that owes much of its success to its volatile prose, text-speak and Irish coinages.' --The Sunday Times
`This is a startlingly and imaginative debut novel from one of Ireland's most talented new writers' --Irish Post
`Cool, culty and futuristic novel set in a crime-ravaged Irish city and starring a crime lord beset by threats to his power. A book that has language all of its own' --Waterstone's Books Quarterly
`Kevin Barry's Bohane is a thoroughly well-realised cartoon world. Or graphic novel world, with pictures you create for yourself using the generous array of material Barry puts at your disposal ... Plots and characters from Mad Max and Gangs of New York , and the story songs of Bob Dylan and Tom Waits; atmosphere from Sergio Leone and Tarantino and Jack Yeats paintings. Mechanics from The Wire and Cormac McCarthy. Swagger from showband dance halls ...Beautiful, arresting, precise ... a compelling creation' --Irish Times, Keith Ridgway
`City of Bohane is a book fizzing with energy, juiced up on the possibilities of language and replete with a plot that, as Barry admits, could have come straight from John Ford...It's the language - the spark of the dialogue, the metallic flash and glitter of the novel's voice, the pleasure of its patois - that I'm hooked by' --Glasgow Herald, Interview with Teddy Jamieson
`A grotesquely comedic gothic romp'
--Irish Sunday Times, Interview with Ed Power
`...he makes a bold statement, not only about his considerable talent but also his plot to upend the realm of modern Irish literature with a work of such singular scope and voice that it is bound to be the talk of book circles this year and possibly beyond. His language is startling, somehow a physical presence. It coils and releases itself or grooves hypnotically before breaking into a frantic spasm of description and dialogue. The gears in your brain are being shifted around and you're enjoying the feeling. It will go on to teach valuable lessons to Barry's successors, reminding them of the places the written word can bring you to... Those people who harbor ambitions to write a book are usually made to reassess things when writers like Kevin Barry pop up on the radar. As of this book's publication, he is a game-changer, someone who will perch annoyingly at the back of the minds of Irish literature's up-and-comers whispering "must try harder"' --Sunday Independent, 15 May 2011, Hilary A White
`...Barry's characters use a rich, profane slang that invigorates his prose...' --The Irish News, May 2011
`Kevin Barry is a great storyteller, and the twists and turns of City of Bohane are satisfying...one of the most intriguing things about City of Bohane - and Barry underplays this beautifully - is its lack of technology...Barry's vernacular, like his plot, is a wonderful blend of past, present and imagined future...sometimes the words are doing backflips and spinning on their heads. Sometimes they are just watching...that Barry has control over all these registers, and makes them his own, is quite astonishing. This debut marks him out as a writer of great promise' --Saturday Guardian, 14 May 2011, Scarlett Thomas
'The narrative voice is clipped and chummy, and makes use of apt tropes... The novel's principal act of betrayal is well disguised and expertly revealed.' --TLS, Mark Kamine
`The book unfolds like a film with bursts of violence, surreal conversation and beautifully woven descriptions of a city lost in the clutches of vice and violence, and builds into a multi-stranded epic gang war in the great tradition of films Scorsese himself would be proud of.' --Booktrust
'Volatile prose, text-speak and Irish coinages add to the success of this zingy debut novel.' --Sunday Times Culture
`Part crime/gangster succession saga, part nostalgic ballad, part love-story and part homage to the beauty and elasticity of the English language, City of Bohane is a hard one to describe- but that's what makes it so exhilarating to read...This isn't a place where you'd want to wash up-but it is the stuff of brilliant literature... Barry's real genius is in his reinvention of language- the way he's taken the already distinctive Irish aural vernacular and twisted it- wrapped it around a jazzy riff and made it his own. It's foul-mouthed and brutal elegiac... Linguistically innovative, somewhat challenging and definitely different from, anything else doing the rounds this spring.' --Bookmunch
`The plot is engrossing, with strong bones, yet sinuous and surprising. Logan, Gant and Macu are fantastic. Technicolour and loud, and so well drawn that their reality becomes yours... Barry plays with words with a manic joy and it's this use of language that draws the reader in. For his new world he coins a new slag so believable you can roll it around your tongue.'
--Timeout
'Addictive first novel... this slangy, plosive-packed prose is what makes the book a success...an expert manipulation of syntax keeps things zingy... it is a plus point that the dystopia bears no allegorical weight, thriving purely as an imaginary realm to be taken at face value.' --Sunday Times
`This is a darkly funny tale of gangland warfare in Ireland that reads like a fast-paced film.' --Cosmopolitan
`It's hilarious and visceral.'
--Financial Times
`City of Bohane is the exuberant, spine-tinglingly atmospheric creation of Limerick-born Kevin Barry, whose first foray into novels has been eagerly awaited by fans of his award-winning short stories... This hyper-real world stuffed with overblown violence and all manner of cartoon-like grotesques is certainly a highly entertaining place to lose yourself in.' --Metro
`Barry recalls not only Joyce and Miller but Anthony Burgess, Brett Easton Ellis and even Dylan Thomas too. All of these influences in no way overshadow Barry's unique voice which is inventive, exhilarating and entirely sustained throughout this riot of a novel. He has created a location and characters as vivid as in Thomas's Milk Wood, an idiomatic language as realised as Burgess' nadsat in A Clockwork Orange and writes with the purpose and poetry that Irish writers seem to be born with... the dialogue is hilarious, the descriptions fantastically rich and the overall effect completely immersive... I enjoyed every single second I spent in Bohane and might just have picked up a bit of the taint whilst I was there, y'check me?' --Just William's Luck
'Exhilarating new work... this novel confirms the arrival of a fresh and original voice in Irish literature... Although the book has a compelling narrative flow, its primary delight is the freshness and vitality of language - especially the relentlessly colourful dialogue... [A]hugely entertaining and original novel.' --Irish Sunday Times
`The prose is sizzling, its molecules rocked by the force of collision...[Kevin Barry is an] outrageously talented author... The power of the writing - of the writer's imagination - is the siren call that hooks you... It stuns you with its daring...but it works.'
--The Scotsman
`His inventiveness with language, organic sense of humour and reality fuse together to make for a near-brilliant first novel' --Platform
'Barry's characters use a rich, profane slang that invigorates his prose.' --Norwich Evening News
`So it is (perhaps a little perversely) a genuine surprise when a debut as brashly hailed as City of Bohane is as impressive as it's promised to be...Barry is a writer of considerable comic and stylistic gifts. His novel is a work of pure and unrestrained imagination, both in its linguistic resourcefulness and its vivid depiction of a small, crime-ridden west of Ireland city...a wild vision of comic-book lawlessness...Barry's rich and wholly convincing patois is one-part film noir tough talk, one-part contemporary Limerick vernacular and several parts sheer exuberant invention. Barry is firmly in possession of his own distinct voice...its violence and shallowness are a major part of its queasy appeal.'
--Sunday Business Post (Eire)
`Barry's characters use a rich, profane slang that invigorates his prose.' --Norwich Evening News
`So it is (perhaps a little perversely) a genuine surprise when a debut as brashly hailed as City of Bohane is as impressive as it's promised to be...Barry is a writer of considerable comic and stylistic gifts. His novel is a work of pure and unrestrained imagination, both in its linguistic resourcefulness and its vivid depiction of a small, crime-ridden west of Ireland city...a wild vision of comic-book lawlessness...Barry's rich and wholly convincing patois is one-part film noir tough talk, one-part contemporary Limerick vernacular and several parts sheer exuberant invention. Barry is firmly in possession of his own distinct voice...its violence and shallowness are a major part of its queasy appeal.' --Sunday Business Post (Eire)
'a zingy debut that owes much of its success to its volatile prose, text-speak and Irish coinages.' --The Sunday Times
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What a glorious, dark, weird, wonderful book. Gang warfare in a strange composite of Sligo/Galway/Limerick, in a time not so very far from now, featuring a lover's triangle and more heartstrickenness than "Romeo and Juliet"? Yes, but it works -- or rather doesn't work, just flows and ebbs like the dirty river that divides and centers the town. The old fight and strive to stay young; the young die sometimes before they should; an Ireland at once traditionally homogenous and rampantly multicultural is not only possible but fully here. All ends not with a bang but with a whimper, as I see it, and I finished ready to take a deep breath, pick it back up, and start all over again.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Bohane is a thoroughly lawless Irish town, set in what would appear to be some kind of parallel universe. We are told it is set in 2053, but it's a town without any technology or modern luxuries. It's a violent place fueled by alcohol, drugs and lust with a patois style language that takes a little work to get into. Novels with this kind of premise have to be beyond good if they are to interest the annual literary prize judges; this is one such book and "City of Bohane" is nominated for this year's Costa First Novel prize. It is stunningly good.
The book's brilliance lies not so much in the plot though. It's a relatively straightforward gang land power struggle. Neither does it solely lie with the great range of characters, although they are amusingly well drawn. From the gangland leader and part time mummy's boy Logan Hartnett, his domineering mother, Girly, to the young pretenders Jenni Ching, Wolfie Stanners and a certain Mr Burke, whose nickname rhymes with `mucker', through to the arch manipulator Ol' Boy Mannion.
Great though these characters are, and Kevin Barry frequently goes to great lengths to describe their bizarre fashion tastes, it is the way that Barry uses language to describe the scenes that is so brilliant. Hardly a page went by without it invoking a smile at the sheer brilliance of the descriptions. It's difficult to give examples, because of the unique style of the language which taken out of context is merely confusing, but in a bar "ceiling fans whirred, noirishly against the night, and were stoical, somehow, like the old uncles of the place, all raspy and emphysemic". He does this again and again.
The book's cultural influences are worn on its sleeve and are wide ranging. Most obviously in literary terms, there are elements of "A Clockwork Orange" but in terms of the imagery, it's very cimematic, and in fact the film right have already been sold. "Gangs of New York" in particular springs to mind in style terms. There are also hints of deeper mythologies throughout and indeed, the relationship between Logan and his mother is all very "Grendal".
Violent and scary though Bohane is, you get a strong sense that Barry very much likes his creation. It's usually a fair bet that when a male author clothes his young female characters in catsuits that this is very much a place he'd like to be! It's probably fair to say that it's a book that has more male reader appeal to it just because of the subject matter. It's probably not the best Christmas present for your Granny, unless she has a penchant for swearing and "hoors, herbs, fetish parlours, grog pits and needle alleys".
Brilliant too is the vernacular of Bohane. Although at first this can be difficult to penetrate, it makes great sense ("peepers" are eyes for example) and the use of repeated phrases like "y'check" and "ye sketchin" invoke gang culture and language. Barry is also very good at the physical and environmental influences on the people and the city. The cold dark heart of the book is the Bohane river that gives this city its name.
Also interesting is the relationship between this future-set world and nostalgia. The older characters, including the banished former gang leader, are all prone to nostalgia and while the book is set in the future, the world is very much one of the past in terms of the lack of technology.
The subject matter and style won't be to everyone's taste, but it's a book that I could enthuse about for hours. It's hugely original, completely stylish and quite possibly brilliant. Real life is quite dull after you've visited Bohane - I want to go back, "y'check me?".
The book's brilliance lies not so much in the plot though. It's a relatively straightforward gang land power struggle. Neither does it solely lie with the great range of characters, although they are amusingly well drawn. From the gangland leader and part time mummy's boy Logan Hartnett, his domineering mother, Girly, to the young pretenders Jenni Ching, Wolfie Stanners and a certain Mr Burke, whose nickname rhymes with `mucker', through to the arch manipulator Ol' Boy Mannion.
Great though these characters are, and Kevin Barry frequently goes to great lengths to describe their bizarre fashion tastes, it is the way that Barry uses language to describe the scenes that is so brilliant. Hardly a page went by without it invoking a smile at the sheer brilliance of the descriptions. It's difficult to give examples, because of the unique style of the language which taken out of context is merely confusing, but in a bar "ceiling fans whirred, noirishly against the night, and were stoical, somehow, like the old uncles of the place, all raspy and emphysemic". He does this again and again.
The book's cultural influences are worn on its sleeve and are wide ranging. Most obviously in literary terms, there are elements of "A Clockwork Orange" but in terms of the imagery, it's very cimematic, and in fact the film right have already been sold. "Gangs of New York" in particular springs to mind in style terms. There are also hints of deeper mythologies throughout and indeed, the relationship between Logan and his mother is all very "Grendal".
Violent and scary though Bohane is, you get a strong sense that Barry very much likes his creation. It's usually a fair bet that when a male author clothes his young female characters in catsuits that this is very much a place he'd like to be! It's probably fair to say that it's a book that has more male reader appeal to it just because of the subject matter. It's probably not the best Christmas present for your Granny, unless she has a penchant for swearing and "hoors, herbs, fetish parlours, grog pits and needle alleys".
Brilliant too is the vernacular of Bohane. Although at first this can be difficult to penetrate, it makes great sense ("peepers" are eyes for example) and the use of repeated phrases like "y'check" and "ye sketchin" invoke gang culture and language. Barry is also very good at the physical and environmental influences on the people and the city. The cold dark heart of the book is the Bohane river that gives this city its name.
Also interesting is the relationship between this future-set world and nostalgia. The older characters, including the banished former gang leader, are all prone to nostalgia and while the book is set in the future, the world is very much one of the past in terms of the lack of technology.
The subject matter and style won't be to everyone's taste, but it's a book that I could enthuse about for hours. It's hugely original, completely stylish and quite possibly brilliant. Real life is quite dull after you've visited Bohane - I want to go back, "y'check me?".
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
`The City of Bohane' had been sitting on my `must read pile' for a couple of months, finally forcing itself to the top by being shortlisted for the Costa first novel award. Why did I leave it so long? It is violent, funny, intelligent, imaginative and strangely beautiful. Bohane, on the west coast of Ireland was once a great city, we encounter it 40 years into the future when it is a `sin city', run by various gangs and full of murder, drugs and prostitution. Logan Hartnett of the Fancy gang has kept it under control for years but things are changing starting with the return of Gant, the previous leader of the gang. A feud is due with all the bloodshed it will entail, but then peace can only last for so long, betrayal and changes of allegiance are on the cards.
The basic plot may not be completely new but it is the way the story is told that kept me riveted to the page. The language is a form of patois, but it isn't hard to understand the meaning behind the words. The fight between the gangs isn't described as it happens but we learn about it from a set of `still' images through the eyes of Balthazar Grimes, the photographer for the `Vindicator' as he develops the images, deciding which he will use. Hartnett and Gant are joined by a cast of thoroughly disreputable characters, unlikeable yet at the same time, comic. Harnett's old mother is an inspired creation and possibly the only person he is truly scared of. Then there is Macu, Hartnett's wife and the love of his life who has a history with Gant.
I loved this book and can see the author picking up a cult following. The language may be a bit strong for some readers, but it is integral to the story, sounds natural coming from the characters and does add to the overall dark humour that permeates the novel. Recommended for anyone looking for something a bit different.
The basic plot may not be completely new but it is the way the story is told that kept me riveted to the page. The language is a form of patois, but it isn't hard to understand the meaning behind the words. The fight between the gangs isn't described as it happens but we learn about it from a set of `still' images through the eyes of Balthazar Grimes, the photographer for the `Vindicator' as he develops the images, deciding which he will use. Hartnett and Gant are joined by a cast of thoroughly disreputable characters, unlikeable yet at the same time, comic. Harnett's old mother is an inspired creation and possibly the only person he is truly scared of. Then there is Macu, Hartnett's wife and the love of his life who has a history with Gant.
I loved this book and can see the author picking up a cult following. The language may be a bit strong for some readers, but it is integral to the story, sounds natural coming from the characters and does add to the overall dark humour that permeates the novel. Recommended for anyone looking for something a bit different.
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