A kind of nasty review for Kevin Barry’s City Of Bohane, unattributed too which seems odd:

There are other oddities, notably a first-person narrator who makes his presence felt every so often, but so glancingly that you wonder what he’s doing there, and by the end his function, if he has one, remains unclear. Barry has a remarkable talent, as is evident from his short stories, but a novel requires particular qualities — a satisfying structure, a mastery of the long, developing narrative and complex characters of psychological and emotional depth — that aren’t essential, or sometimes even required, in the shorter form. On this showing, the author has yet to command these qualities.

(Source: independent.ie)