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There Are Little Kingdoms (Canons Book 60) Kindle Edition
These stories, filled with a grand sense of life's absurdity, form a remarkably surefooted collection that reads like a modern-day Dubliners.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCanongate Canons
- Publication date6 April 2017
- File size6485 KB
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"Could easily have been titled These Are Little Masterpieces", Irish Times
"The most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years" -- Irvine Welsh
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- ASIN : B01LY3QL8P
- Publisher : Canongate Canons; Main - Canons edition (6 April 2017)
- Language : English
- File size : 6485 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 161 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 212,726 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 557 in British & Irish Short Stories
- 1,725 in Contemporary Short Stories
- 3,644 in Single Authors Short Stories
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 December 2018Nobody writes about shambolic, messy, drunken, quietly violent or desperate Irish lives like Kevin Barry. yet these stories are shot through with moments of compassion and tenderness. A brilliant writer in a league of his own. (the new yorker seems to think Kevin Barry, Colin Barrett and Tessa Hadley are some of the only UK writers- but fair enough! they are so great.)
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 October 2020
4.0 out of 5 stars Good writing about the frustrations of adults and teenagers with small-town life.
I've just finished reading the book of Short Stories called "There Are Little Kingdoms", by Irish writer Kevin Barry. I enjoyed nearly all of the stories, which are set in small towns/villages in Ireland, mainly around Tipperary, and tell the stories of somewhat restricted lives, and the ambitions of the young to be able to free themselves from small town life and escape into what they assume to be the glamour of the larger towns and cities. As someone brought up in a smallish town myself, I can understand the frustrations of those adults and teenagers described in the stories, though I tended to express my frustrations differently. What I couldn't understand was why the publishers included a final story, Penguins, which moved to a totally different locale- namely, the Arctic- and the action takes place on a plane which is forced to crash land on the ice. We then see the passengers and crew attempting to survive the cold whilst awaiting rescue. Although it's a well-written story, I couldn't see any connection between it and the other stories in the book, though perhaps someone more intelligent and analytical than myself could explain the rationale behind its inclusion? As it came at the end of the book, I'm assuming it was meant to provide some commentary on, or summing up of, all those that had come before. To me, it seemed rather tacked on, as if they'd asked Barry to supply a specific number of stories and, as he'd run out of ideas for different takes on small town life, he simply wrote one, or found another amongst his pile of previously written stories, which they included. Not quite on a par with the novels I've previously read this past month, but I'd still recommend it.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 October 2019One of Ireland's finest writers and a wonderful collection of stories here.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 February 2020Incredible writing, the book handles nice, but text is too small, for me anyway. 👍
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 June 2019It went a bit diddly dee for my liking. I get that it's little kingdoms in Ireland but easy with the trowel lads. Now Dark Lies the Island, that's boy right there, so tis.
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- Jonathan WoodsReviewed in the United States on 7 December 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, beautifully written stories of contemporary Ireland.
Kevin Barry is a master of dark comedy and the clever sentence. Highly readable, fun and often with a twist. Highly recommended. I bought this book because I read one of Barry’s stories published in The New Yorker. Best story they published all year.
- Kindle CustomerReviewed in the United States on 8 April 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Great stories, dark and hilarious
Great stories, dark and hilarious, and beautifully written, full of metaphor, dazzling language, unsettling and sometimes surreal.
Atlantic City and Breakfast Wine are just about perfect. The Wintersongs has moments of pure magic too.
- Timothy E. ReidmanReviewed in the United States on 14 March 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read!
Amazing, well written short stories. The author’s tales of youth, tragedy, family and loneliness are poignant and deeply resonating. I am looking forward to more!