Initially published in 1984, Dermot Healy's stunning first novel,
Fighting with Shadows, returns to print after almost thirty years.
Largely set in the border village of Fanacross, Co. Fermanagh, as
Ireland stumbles clumsily toward modernity, the Allen family
negotiate a bitter and troubled terrain. Fighting with Shadows
offers extraordinary and poetic glimpses of the compelling lives of
ordinary people. The novel's landscape is of borderlands, of
in-between spaces; it tells of violently sundered geographical
borders, of maddening religious differences, of the anguished gaps
between people as they struggle to find each other, and of how the
dead reside among its inhabitants long after they've passed. At
once realist account and nightmarish magic realist fable, Fighting
with Shadows occupies a truly important position in the history of
modern Irish fiction.
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