A goat's song
Healy, Dermot, 1947-20142012
Book
Total copies: 2
A playwright living in the West of Ireland is abandoned by his actress lover Catherine because of his alcoholism. He tries to recreate the woman in his imagination and succeeds in recreating the love they once shared in a new and different way. 'One of those books that makes its own language.' Anne Enright'The real stuff.' James Kelman'A rare and powerful book.' E. Annie ProulxJack Ferris, playwright, drunk, is mired in contemplative misery in a fisherman's cottage on the windy bleak west coast of Ireland. Mourning his love affair with Catherine Adams, an actress and Protestant from the North, he summons her instead in his imagination. In doing so, he tells the story of her father Jonathan, failed parson and retired RUC man, shamed into exile by a moment of violence in Derry years ago. Masterly, elegiac, A Goat's Song conjures the contrasting landscapes and opposing myths of a nation divided.
Main title:
A goat's song / Dermot Healy.
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Imprint:
London : Faber, 2012.
Collation:
416 p.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Harvill, 1994.
ISBN:
9780571281817 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR6058.E19
Language:
English
BRN:
3869543