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b>ONE OF BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • LIBRARY JOURNALbr>br>A collection of short stories of rural Ireland in the classic Irish mode: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today--from the author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to Tangier.br>/b>br>With three novels and two short story collections published, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the finest writers not just in Ireland but in the English language. All of his prodigious gifts of language, character, and setting in these eleven exquisite stories transport the reader to an Ireland both timeless and recognizably modern. Shot through with dark humor and the uncanny power of the primal and unchanging Irish landscape, the stories in That Old Country Music represent some of the finest fiction being written today.
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KEVIN BARRY is the author of the novels
Night Boat to Tangier,
Beatlebone, and
City of Bohane and the story collections
Dark Lies the Island and
There Are Little Kingdoms. His awards include the International Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the
Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, and the Lannan Literary Award. His stories and essays appear in
The New Yorker,
Granta, and elsewhere. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter, and he lives in County Sligo, Ireland.
