Night Boat to Tangier

Night Boat to Tangier - Paperback

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Night Boat to Tangier - Paperback

Night Boat to Tangier - Paperback

by Kevin Barry
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by Kevin Barry (Author)

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - "A darkly incantatory tragicomedy of love and betrayal ... Beautifully paced, emotionally wise." --The Boston Globe

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.

Author Biography

KEVIN BARRY is the author of the novels Beatlebone and City of Bohane and the story collections Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. His awards include the International Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. His stories and essays appear in The New Yorker, Granta, and elsewhere. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter, and he lives in County Sligo, Ireland.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: July 07, 2020
Award: Man Booker Prize (2019)
ISBN9781101911341
Author Kevin Barry
PublisherVintage
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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