{"product_id":"that-old-country-music-stories-9781101911358","title":"That Old Country Music: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eONE OF BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - LIBRARY JOURNAL \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eNight Boat to Tangier.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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 \u003ci\u003eThat Old Country Music \u003c\/i\u003erepresent some of the finest fiction being written today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKEVIN BARRY is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eNight Boat to Tangier\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Beatlebone\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCity of Bohane \u003c\/i\u003eand the story collections \u003ci\u003eDark Lies the Island \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThere Are Little Kingdoms\u003c\/i\u003e. His awards include the International Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e EFG Short Story Prize, and the Lannan Literary Award. His stories and essays appear in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter, and he lives in County Sligo, Ireland.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50520715952402,"sku":"9781101911358","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_67d48b29-bdf4-407e-9a85-13154da9e92c.jpg?v=1731089520","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/that-old-country-music-stories-9781101911358","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}