![]() Barry employs every tool in his formidable toolbox-razor-sharp prose, powerful poetics and a dramatist’s approach to dialogue unencumbered by punctuation. “Books like this come along once in a generation, books by writers with real chops, who haven’t yet been discouraged from taking real chances and blurring the lines between disciplines. ![]() Josh Cohen, Chair of Judges, Goldsmiths Prize 2015 ![]() Intricately weaving and blurring fiction and life, Beatlebone embodies beautifully this prize’s spirit of creative risk. Its compulsive narrative of one of the last century’s great musicians and pop icons gradually, and without a hint of contrivance, becomes a startling and original meditation on the uncanny relationship of a writer to his character. But it also takes us to the very edge of the novel form, where it meets its notorious doppelgänger, autobiography. “ Beatlebone is a novel that takes its reader to the edge-of the Western world, of sanity, of fame, of words. ![]()
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