McCartney Times

Post-Gazette.com – In the 1970s, a legendary rock star retreats to his private island in Ireland in an attempt to overcome his personal and artistic malaise. While this synopsis of Kevin Barry’s “Beatlebone” reads like a slice-of-life biography, the novel is actually a type of historical fiction that marries stream-of-consciousness with magical realism in the guise of an ennui-filled John Lennon. What results is a polarizing work that will either engross readers with its portrait of an artist straining against his past and present, or it will irritate readers with its meandering plot points and assumptions about the interior life of one of rock’n roll’s most sacred idols. “BEATLEBONE” By Kevin Barry Doubleday ($24.95). It is 1978, and Lennon wants to escape his comfortable, domestic life in New York City.

Source: ‘Beatlebone’: After the Beatles, John Lennon tries to find his place in the world