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Dermot Healy (1947–2014)

Author of A Goat's Song

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Dermot Healy was born in Finea, County Westmeath, Ireland on November 9, 1947. His first volume of short stories, Banished Misfortune, was published in 1982. He wrote several novels including A Goat's Song, Sudden Times, and Long Time, No See. He also wrote volumes of poetry including A Fool's show more Errand and a memoir entitled The Bend for Home. He won several literary prizes including the Hennessy, the Tom Gallon and the Encore. He also wrote and directed plays including The Long Swim and On Broken Wings. He was the ageing Irish emigrant narrator in Nichola Bruce's film, I Could Read the Sky in 1999. He died on June 29, 2014 at the age of 66. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999) — Contributor — 149 copies

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Really great. I agree with that the most compelling character was Catherine's father. I'd rank it with Under the Volcano as one of the best books about alcoholism. It's about a lot more too.
 
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k6gst | 2 other reviews | Mar 15, 2022 |
Terrific staccato writing telling a story, backwards, about an Irishman from Sligo struggling with a return home from the corrupt building trade of 1980s London. The story holds great tension and unfolds slowly and deliberately. Darkly comic and powerfully abrupt.
 
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ephemeral_future | Aug 20, 2020 |
Simply lovely. And funny! So Irish. So good. Read it.
 
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Clare.Davitt | 15 other reviews | Aug 5, 2013 |
Basically, this book is too long for what it is. Parts I liked but I kept expecting it to go somewhere and it never did. But, it was charming enough that I finished it.
 
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