- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; New e. edition (6 Mar 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1860463096
- ISBN-13: 978-1860463099
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 510,807 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In a wind-battered Mayo cottage, playwright Jack Ferris tries to salvage something from his broken love affair with Catherine Adams. Drink and despair drove her away; can his imagination call her back? But as he summons up her past, Jack finds he has also called up Catherine's RUC father and a whole dangerous world of opposed traditions.
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Dermot Healy was born in Finea, Co. Westmeath, in 1947. He is the author of the story collection Banished Misfortune (1982), which won two Hennessy Awards and the Tom Gallon Award, a novel, Fighting with Shadows (1984), and a poetry collection, The Ballyconnell Colours (1992). He wrote the screenplay for Cathal Black's film about the Christian Brothers, Our Boys, and his plays include The Long Swim, On Broken Wings and Last Night's Fun. He has edited two journals, The Drumlin and Force 10, which was singled out for praise as one of Ireland's best community arts journals. A Goat's Song won the 1994 Encore Award for the best second novel. His most recent book, The Bend for Home was published by Harvill in 1996. He is a member of Aosdána and lives near Sligo.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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In a Goat's Song Dermot Healy excavates the destructive effect that drink and the secrets of the past can have on a relationship. Written with genuine insight the hazy prose reflects the ruptured perception of the drinker.
The world of Jack, a catholic playwright, and his relationship with the protestant daughter of an RUC policeman, is one common to those who drink a little - or, indeed a lot - too much: the regretted mornings lying, fully-clothed, in unmade beds; the feverish reunions; the nights spent in pubs feeling drink and directionless jealousy take its hold; the spiteful attempts at revenge. All these aspects of the `drink` relationship are here and are mercilessly exposed.
Yet it is perhaps the novels love of its country (Ireland), the wistful, elegiac descriptions of its landscape and the always-present regret for the events of the past that lift this novel off the page and into the memory. Do read it.
6 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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Dermot Healy can be a very fine writer. THis book is 500 pages long and about 150 of those are very good, the rest is incredible poetic blather which has no place in a novel.
Parts of the novel (the section in Belfast for example) ring very true, but the rest is incredibly tedious and overwritten. He will never use one adjective if 4 will do. Very difficult to finish. I felt that I had wasted most of my time.
This book got rave reviews from Irish reviewers and novelists, which says a lot about them. Incredible.
'The bend for home' is a lot better. Don't waste your time reading this.
0 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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