A review by ronanmcd
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry

3.0

Barry hss lost the qualities that made his short fiction notable. The smartness is replaced with contrivance, the poignancy with rambling. He tries to invent a patois, city, fsshion and time, falling short on all counts. Beloved by Irish reviewers and publishers he is being trumpeted as more than he was. The progress has actually been a reverse.