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There are Little Kingdoms: Stories (Paperback)

by Kevin Barry (Author)
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  • Paperback: 177 pages
  • Publisher: Stinging Fly Press (12 Mar 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 095501526X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0955015267
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime talent for observing the fraility of the Human Situation , 13 Aug 2007
By E. O. Callaghan (London usually) - See all my reviews
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This book has been one of the most rewarding and satisfying reads I have had in many years. The characters of the stories come to life in front of you thanks to the author's talent at finding that part of human nation we all share - the fraility of our own existence. The descriptions of Ireland are truly sublime. There is one story wherein a character plays pool and the way the author describes the action is just the best ever. I look forward to reading more from Kevin Barry again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars a little gem, 15 Dec 2008
By Mr. S. G. Dwyer "sean_dwyer" (dungarvan, ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: There are Little Kingdoms: Stories by Kevin Barry (Paperback)
loved this, a wonderful collection of short stories, mostly set in small town Ireland.
He has a great turn of phrase and describes the settings and landscapes brilliantly - afternoons are feeble, people have furious eyebrows, you could be on the expressway bus trundling through the damp Tipp countryside.

I used to love his Examiner column and hoped that this book wouldn't disappoint and happily it didn't.

One to go back to.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A great debut, 30 Sep 2008
This review is from: There are Little Kingdoms: Stories by Kevin Barry (Paperback)
This is a great achievement for a debut collection. Barry's superb characterisations and sense of place make some of these 13 stories excellent. Barry has many talents: a great imagination, fine observation, a wonderful ear for rural Irish dialogue (rendering the language almost poetic) technical ease and effortlessness and a sense of humour. The opening story Atlantic City is near perfect and unexpectedly sad and poignant. I remember a similar scene myself as depicted in the story from when I was 12 one summer in Dunmore East, Co Waterford. That's one of the beauties of these stories - they could be in any Irish town and the scenes will be familiar to any of us. There are it should be said, 3-4 stories here that are relatively weak in comparison to the rest. It will be interesting to see how Barry develops and whether he has much more in the locker - he has had all his life up to now to write these ones - but I suppose that is the perpetual "difficult scond album" problem.
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