Kevin Barry
Born
Limerick, Ireland
Genre
Night Boat to Tangier
40 editions
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2019
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City of Bohane
37 editions
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2011
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Beatlebone
30 editions
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2015
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The Heart in Winter
9 editions
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2024
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That Old Country Music
20 editions
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2020
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Dark Lies the Island
16 editions
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2010
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There are Little Kingdoms: Stories
16 editions
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2007
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Town and Country
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5 editions
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2013
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Kevin Barry Collection 3 Books Set
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Winter Pages vol 1
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“Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.”
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“Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.”
― City of Bohane
― City of Bohane
“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.”
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