"Buxton Hill" by Kevin Barry - 10 Pages -included with Cork Stories - Edited by Madeleine D’Arcy & Laura McKenna - 2024 - An Irish Short Story Month Work
Irish Short Story Month XIII 2024
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I first read a short story by Kevin Barry 12 years ago during Irish Short Story Month in 2012. Since then I have posted on more of his works, novels and Short Stories.
"Buxton Hill" by Kevin Barry is the 5th story from the collection Cork Stories - Edited by Madeleine D’Arcy & Laura McKenna - 2024 I have so far posted upon. I intend to post upon all 18 Stories in the collection.
"Buxton Hill", set in Cork, is a first person account of a man, living in a house converted to a number of apartments. He is single, is a writer of sorts but hardly a prosperous one. There is not quite a standard plot, much of the story is given up to his observations on the other people living in the house on Buxton Hill.
"J thought he was gone for good. October the 2nd since Toberty’s been seen on the premises. I have four bails of briquettes gone from his back kitchen. The evidence is long destroyed but he’ll have his suspicions and he has a brother in Cork jail for murder. I’m not saying that kind of thing runs in families. I mean runs-in-families is not an area any of us, around this place, want to get involved in. I could go to my father’s house. But there’s more to that"
Kevin Barry is the author of the highly acclaimed novel City of Bohane and two short-story collections, Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. He was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2007 and won the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award in 2012. For City of Bohane, he was short-listed for the Costa First Novel Award and the Irish Book Award, and won the Author’s Club Best First Novel Prize, the European Union Prize for Literature, and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere. He lives in County Sligo in Ireland.
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I've been meaning to read Kevin Barry for years. And I also like the idea of reading stories set in apartment buildings. Like hotels and restaurants, there's such scope for storytelling in this setting.
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