night boat to tangier excerpt
Night boat to tangier, by kevin barry. (anchor, 272 pp., $16.) two salty old irish drug smugglers reminisce via “scabrously witty dialogue,” in our reviewer james lasdun’s words, while. Night boat to tangier is a novel drenched in sex and death and narcotics, in sudden violence and old magic, but it is obsessed, above all, with the mysteries of love. a tragicomic masterwork from a multi-award-winning writer, night boat to tangier is both mordant and hilarious, lyrical yet laden with menace.. Night boat to tangier is not a caper or a ‘crime’ novel, but a character-driven story that just happens to be set in a gangster milieu. along the way there is tragedy, comedy and the peculiar durability of friendships formed in youth. irish crooks maurice and charlie, lifelong partners in drug smuggling, are hanging about the ferry terminal at algeciras hoping to locate an estranged daughter..
night boat to tangier excerpt Night boat to tangier by kevin barry is published by canongate (rrp
