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About the Book

That Old Country Music: Stories

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.

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 11 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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That Old Country Music: Stories
by Kevin Barry

  • Publication Date: March 1, 2022
  • Genres: Fiction, Short Stories
  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Anchor
  • ISBN-10: 1101911352
  • ISBN-13: 9781101911358