Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
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In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen—Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs—sit at night, none too patiently. The pair are trying to locate Maurice’s estranged daughter, Dilly, whom they’ve heard is either arriving on a boat coming from Tangier or departing on one heading there.
This nocturnal vigil will initiate an extraordinary journey back in time to excavate their shared history of violence, romance, mutual betrayals, and serial exiles. Rendered with the dark humor and the hardboiled Hibernian lyricism that have made Kevin Barry one of the most striking and admired fiction writers at work today, Night Boat to Tangier is a superbly melancholic melody of a novel, full of beautiful phrases and terrible men.
REVIEWS
A pleasure to have and hold." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“Dark, haunting. . .Gripping. . .[It] calls to mind Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. . .Barry’s a remarkable sentence-level writer who’s capable of extraordinary turns of phrase. . .Night Boat to Tangier is remarkable, a novel that's both grim and compassionate, and it features gorgeous writing on every page. Barry never asks the reader to pity his characters; rather, he makes it nearly impossible not to relate to them, which is a remarkable trick.”—Michael Schaub, NPR
"Kevin Barry channels the music in every voice, from lowlife philosopher to slow-footed thug, ponderous wit to fluting child — and the comic genius in everyone, whether unfunny fool or God’s own comedian." —Ellen Akins, The Washington Post
PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-1101911341
Pages: 272
This nocturnal vigil will initiate an extraordinary journey back in time to excavate their shared history of violence, romance, mutual betrayals, and serial exiles. Rendered with the dark humor and the hardboiled Hibernian lyricism that have made Kevin Barry one of the most striking and admired fiction writers at work today, Night Boat to Tangier is a superbly melancholic melody of a novel, full of beautiful phrases and terrible men.
REVIEWS
A pleasure to have and hold." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“Dark, haunting. . .Gripping. . .[It] calls to mind Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. . .Barry’s a remarkable sentence-level writer who’s capable of extraordinary turns of phrase. . .Night Boat to Tangier is remarkable, a novel that's both grim and compassionate, and it features gorgeous writing on every page. Barry never asks the reader to pity his characters; rather, he makes it nearly impossible not to relate to them, which is a remarkable trick.”—Michael Schaub, NPR
"Kevin Barry channels the music in every voice, from lowlife philosopher to slow-footed thug, ponderous wit to fluting child — and the comic genius in everyone, whether unfunny fool or God’s own comedian." —Ellen Akins, The Washington Post
PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-1101911341
Pages: 272