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A review by beemini
That Old Country Music: Stories by Kevin Barry
3.0
This book is like if you took a pint of Guinness, shook it with a pint of Baileys, stirred it with a shillelagh, served it in a pub made of Irish peat bricks on a winding Irish country road, while Irish fiddle music was playing in the background. And you sprinkled four leaf clovers on top.
It's Irish, is what I'm saying.
The best stories in this collection are the ones that lean in to the Irish rhythm of speech and humor, especially Toronto and the State of Grace, where an elderly man and his more elderly ma get snookered drinking an entire pub's worth of booze. Who's-Dead McCarthy is a clever gem too. The other stories don't go anywhere in particular. It's just not for me.
It's Irish, is what I'm saying.
The best stories in this collection are the ones that lean in to the Irish rhythm of speech and humor, especially Toronto and the State of Grace, where an elderly man and his more elderly ma get snookered drinking an entire pub's worth of booze. Who's-Dead McCarthy is a clever gem too. The other stories don't go anywhere in particular. It's just not for me.