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`A grand read, funny and provocative.' --Annie Proulx, GUARDIAN
`A celebration of the whole gift of existence ... compassionate and elegiac.' --Keith Hopper, TLS
`All Healy's characters talk brilliantly and the whole novel is bult out of their talk ... a genuinely moving novel.' --Carlo Gébler, FINANCIAL TIMES
'Funny, sad, wild, tender, profound, brilliant, Healy.' --Roddy Doyle
'A brilliant, crazed, cruel and savagely funny book by a writer at the peak of his mighty powers.'
--Frank McGuinness
'Terrific and exhilarating ... wonderfully wry story of the daily goings-on in a remote village in northwestern Ireland.' --Sunday Times
'Through Psyche's eyes the reader encounters the often eccentric locals, including two charismatic old men, Joe-Joe and the Blackbird. But the little town is hiding some dark secrets...' --Irish Times
'Linguistic richness, humour and brilliant characterisation from one of Ireland's best writers ... compassionate yet unsentimental evocation of a rural community clinging to its identity whilst adapting to new people and change. The sparkling dialogue alone makes Healy worth reading.' --James Robertson, Scotland on Sunday
'Through Psyche's eyes the reader encounters the often eccentric locals, including two charismatic old men, Joe-Joe and the Blackbird. But the little town is hiding some dark secrets...' --Irish Times
'The most exhilarating book I read this year ... Healy draws us in by the sheer exuberance and inventiveness of his writing. Much of the novel is in dialogue, wonderfully pitched, full of surreal flourishes and often very funny indeed. This is a lovely book about the extraordinary nature of ordinary life, generously conceived and beautifully executed.' --Peter Parker, TLS Books of the Year
'Through Psyche's eyes the reader encounters the often eccentric locals, including two charismatic old men, Joe-Joe and the Blackbird. But the little town is hiding some dark secrets...' --Irish Times
`A celebration of the whole gift of existence ... compassionate and elegiac.' --Keith Hopper, TLS
`All Healy's characters talk brilliantly and the whole novel is bult out of their talk ... a genuinely moving novel.' --Carlo Gébler, FINANCIAL TIMES
'Funny, sad, wild, tender, profound, brilliant, Healy.' --Roddy Doyle
'A brilliant, crazed, cruel and savagely funny book by a writer at the peak of his mighty powers.'
--Frank McGuinness
'Terrific and exhilarating ... wonderfully wry story of the daily goings-on in a remote village in northwestern Ireland.' --Sunday Times
'Through Psyche's eyes the reader encounters the often eccentric locals, including two charismatic old men, Joe-Joe and the Blackbird. But the little town is hiding some dark secrets...' --Irish Times
'Linguistic richness, humour and brilliant characterisation from one of Ireland's best writers ... compassionate yet unsentimental evocation of a rural community clinging to its identity whilst adapting to new people and change. The sparkling dialogue alone makes Healy worth reading.' --James Robertson, Scotland on Sunday
'Through Psyche's eyes the reader encounters the often eccentric locals, including two charismatic old men, Joe-Joe and the Blackbird. But the little town is hiding some dark secrets...' --Irish Times
'The most exhilarating book I read this year ... Healy draws us in by the sheer exuberance and inventiveness of his writing. Much of the novel is in dialogue, wonderfully pitched, full of surreal flourishes and often very funny indeed. This is a lovely book about the extraordinary nature of ordinary life, generously conceived and beautifully executed.' --Peter Parker, TLS Books of the Year
'Through Psyche's eyes the reader encounters the often eccentric locals, including two charismatic old men, Joe-Joe and the Blackbird. But the little town is hiding some dark secrets...' --Irish Times
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The long-awaited new novel from one of the greatest of contemporary Irish novelists.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When Psyche, the 18 year-old voice of Dermot Healy's wonderful, rich and funny novel, is asked if he has an interior life, he hastily answers no, and it is true that his attention is mostly focused outwards, onto the people close to him, his family and neighbours,his girlfriend, and onto the volatile natural world of Ireland's Atlantic coast where a storm is always coming, and the islands are always leaving.
We gradually learn that his inward life is compromised by mourning, is on hold. He is filling the gap by energetically running errands for his great uncle and his friend Blackbird, two old men for whom ancient enmities, old loves, old ghosts and goblins are very much alive. Vivid too is their conversation, filled with non-sequiturs and improbabilities. Psyche helps anyone in the village who asks him to, and so we meet eastern european economic migrants, the protestant lady of the great house, the retired judge. The physical world is much in evidence, dry-stone walling, fishing. In fact a whole world is created, perhaps a better, kinder one, though it is done wholly unsentimentally. Perhaps a world in which death can be borne and rcovered from.
We gradually learn that his inward life is compromised by mourning, is on hold. He is filling the gap by energetically running errands for his great uncle and his friend Blackbird, two old men for whom ancient enmities, old loves, old ghosts and goblins are very much alive. Vivid too is their conversation, filled with non-sequiturs and improbabilities. Psyche helps anyone in the village who asks him to, and so we meet eastern european economic migrants, the protestant lady of the great house, the retired judge. The physical world is much in evidence, dry-stone walling, fishing. In fact a whole world is created, perhaps a better, kinder one, though it is done wholly unsentimentally. Perhaps a world in which death can be borne and rcovered from.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Dermot Healy's "Long Time No See" is a truly remarkable comic novel- designed like so much of James Joyce and Myles nGopaleen (Flann O'Brian)to be read allowed (if only to one self. His treatment of the genuinely surreal character of so much every day Hiberno-English conversation is achieved with brilliant insight and daunting consistency. You wonder at the end what it was all about - but you realise that it has left an indelible mark on one. Healy is best known as a poet. Perhaps this novel is itself a vast prose poem.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
'Long Time, No See' is a beautifully written book and, in parts, extremely funny. This is the Ireland and a community I thought had been lost in the crazy world of the Celtic Tiger and its demise. Dermot Healy's prose is up there with Ireland's finest writers and the book deserves every plaudit. Please read and enjoy the everyday happenings of a young school leaver called 'Mister Psyche' and his Ma and Da, his Uncle JoeJoe, and his girl friend Anna. You're in for a treat.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Starts slowly.....then becomes addictive
This is a somewhat puzzling novel. Dermot Healy's writing is quite beautiful, lyrical in a way. The story, however, was disappointing. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Freckles
Slow-burn in Sligo
Maybe not Sligo but anyways somewhere on the wild west coast of Ireland.Years ago the author wrote "Sudden Times" which is a romp compared to this. Read more
Published 11 months ago by J. M. Gardner
Lyrical Irish novel but with frustrating elements
This is a slow-paced novel that gradually fills you in on the life of Philip [Mister Psyche], his family, friends and the community of the small fishing town in a lyrical, poetic... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Arkgirl
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