Beatlebone by Kevin Barry

Beatlebone by Kevin Barry

Author:Kevin Barry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-11-17T05:00:00+00:00


John shakes his head and smiles. He drifts to the corner of the room where the candle burns; he looks at the flame and on the saucer of delft the hardening beads of wax—there is a thumbprint in the wax.

JOHN Here we fucking go.

John walks back to the circle and sits again; he smiles—it’s as though he can take it.

JOE …his hatred for his own self and all that he’s made of because he’s nothing now, not anymore he’s not, he’s just a fucking richman worm…

Joe closes his eyes to make the words: Joe Director is charismatic, hog-fat, dark-as-fuck.

JOE …a spawky fucking Irish peasant worm with his new money and his faggot hands and…

JOHN Oh fuck off!

SUE We’re getting closer.

JOE …his fear, all the fear he’s got in…

JOHN Oh fuck off you fat fucking goon!

FRANK Truth is cruel, John.

JOE Is that a little colour in your cheeks, John?

JOHN You don’t fucking know me!



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