Beatlebone

A 2015 New York Times Notable Book

Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize

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. Leaving 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. Beatlebone 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.

Castigator al cartii notabile din New York Times din 2015 al Premiului Goldsmiths Este 1978 si John Lennon a scapat din New York pentru a incerca sa gaseasca insula de pe coasta de vest a Irlandei pe care a cumparat-o cu unsprezece ani inainte. Lasand in urma domesticitatea, apropierea de patruzeci, incapacitatea sa de a crea si amintirile despre parinti, el pleaca sa-si calmeze sufletul nelinistit in linistea confortabila a izolarii.