{"product_id":"beatlebone-9781101911334","title":"Beatlebone","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book - It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought eleven years prior. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLeaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to calm his unquiet soul in the comfortable silence of isolation. But when he puts himself in the hands of a shape-shifting driver full of Irish charm and dark whimsy, what ensues can only be termed a magical mystery tour. \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeatlebone is a tour de force of language and literary imagination, a surreal novel that blends fantasy and reality--a Hibernian high wire act of courage, nerve, and great beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKevin Barry is the author of the highly acclaimed novel\u003ci\u003e City of Bohane\u003c\/i\u003e and two short-story collections, \u003ci\u003eDark Lies the Island\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThere Are Little Kingdoms. \u003c\/i\u003eHe was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2007 and won the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award in 2012. For \u003ci\u003eCity of Bohane, \u003c\/i\u003e he was short-listed for the Costa First Novel Award and the Irish Book Award, and won the Author's Club Best First Novel Prize, the European Union Prize for Literature, and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His short fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. He lives in County Sligo in Ireland.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461843489042,"sku":"9781101911334","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1e2dee23-1cb7-4c28-93cc-5a6841582f42.jpg?v=1730081614","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beatlebone-9781101911334","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}