Our Book of the Week is Kevin Barry's astounding new novel, Night Boat to Tangier. Borne on by the conversation between two fading Irish gangsters waiting at the ferry terminal in the Spanish port of Algeciras, the book is a deeply sympathetic (and riotously funny) exploration of human failings. 
>>"Like the result of a collision between Waiting for Godot and Lincoln in the Bardo." —Read Thomas's review. 
>>"I want to get that thread of menace." 
>>"The blank spaces seem to signify accumulated pain." —Nicole Flattery in the LRB
>>"Fascinating hybrid of poetry, drama and ferocious prose."
>>"The old weird Ireland is still out there." 
>>Dark lies the island. 
>>Read Thomas's review of Beatlebone. 
>>Other books by Kevin Barry. 
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