![]() ![]() ![]() Beatlebone is a novel of necessary invention: profound, funny, hard to pin down * * IRISH TIMES * * Beatlebone is as gloriously confounding and as wondrously welcome as a hatching hawk's egg in a Christmas cracker * * NIALL GRIFFITHS * * The most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years - IRVINE WELSH Beatlebone is a rule-breaking novel, a strange and fascinating look at the mystery of creative inspiration * * FINANCIAL TIMES * * A strange and brilliant experiment into showing your working. a tale of fame, freaks, bad liquor and bad weather * * GUARDIAN * * Superb. I read the final pages as slowly as I could in a vain attempt to keep the dream from being over - MICHAEL CHABON Books like this come along once in a generation * * NEW YORK TIMES * * Gloriously freewheeling. It rewards the fan of both those artists yet stands on its own two (or maybe a shaggy dog's four) feet. Casually lyrical, formally inventive, funny and moving, it is a small wonder * * THE SUNDAY TIMES * * Maps the long-rumored territory between James Joyce and John Lennon with poetic precision and a wised-up but loving eye. ![]()
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