![]() ![]() Sure, there are identifying traces: This Lennon lives at the Dakota and he longs to “work again and breathe again and write again, and not be locked to the … past - that he might play again - not locked to the past - that he can write again - not locked to the past and its same old song.” But he is also tormented in ways that may have less to do with Lennon than with Barry himself. ![]() The story is intriguing, not least because it’s rare to come upon a lesser-known narrative about the Beatles - and yet the unexpected turn of the novel, which imagines a 1978 trip by Lennon to Dorinish, is that it isn’t really about the singer at all. It wasn’t much, just a pasture and some rocks, which, Kevin Barry tells us in “Beatlebone” (Doubleday, $24.95, 320 pages), “were harvested for ballast by the local fishing fleet.” Although Lennon wanted to establish a utopian community on Dorinish (in the early 1970s, he invited a group to start a commune on the land), he visited the island just twice. In 1967, John Lennon bought a small island off the west coast of Ireland called Dorinish. ![]()
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