In his cheerfully chilly house in a small Irish village in Co Sligo, Kevin Barry is explaining why his latest novel took so long to write. Samuel Beckett is glaring at us from a large framed photograph hanging above the fireplace: even that most costive of writers might have thought a gestation period of 25 years for one book is going too far.

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