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That Old Country Music: Stories by Kevin Barry

4.0

Really beautiful, poetic prose. Barry creates intriguing, layered characters and situates them in scenic Ireland with a steady and delicate hand. As always with a short story collection, some resonated more with me than others, and reading them all in one sitting, my attention began to flag toward the end. Well worth your time, especially if, like me, you trend toward the "abiding sense of tragedy, which sustain[s] through temporary periods of joy" (Yeats).