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Long Time, No See introduces us to the unforgettable world of
Mister Psyche . In the isolated coastal townland of Ballintra in
the Northwest of Ireland Recent school-leaver, occasional worker,
full-time companion and Malibu-provider to Uncle Joe-Joe and his
friend, The Blackbird, Psyche is a boy on the cusp of adulthood,
undone by a recent traumatic event. Hanging out with men some
forty-plus years his senior proves hazardous for Mister Psyche when
the appearance of a bullet-hole in Uncle Joe-Joe's window draws him
into a series of (mis)-adventures which unsettle and bemuse.
Perhaps The Blackbird is losing it? Or perhaps The General has
decided to act on a decades-old grudge? Whichever way, as the
paranoia grabs a creeping hold of Uncle Joe-Joe, his fragile world
threatens to collapse. And it is Mister Psyche who must digest this
and acknowledge the new world taking shape in the old ...An epic in
miniature peopled by a cast of innocents and broken misfits, Long
Time, No See's lyrical power casts a miraculous literary spell.
Jack 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.
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After The Off (Hardcover)
Bruce Gilden, Dermot Healy
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Set in rural Ireland, against the background of the on-course
gambling operating at the many local race meetings held throughout
the country, this book combines the photographs of Bruce Gilden
with the story-telling of Dermot Healy. It seeks to create a
portrait of this aspect of rural Irish life.
One day, years after he's moved away from his childhood home in
rural Ireland, Dermot Healy returns to care for his ailing mother.
Out of the blue she hands him the forgotten diary he had kept as a
fifteen-year-old. He is amazed to find the makings of the writer he
has become, as well as taken aback at the changes his memory has
wrought. The silhouettes who have haunted his past come back to
inhabit his pages: his father, a kind policeman who plays cards and
drinks stout with his cronies; his mother, whose stories young
Dermot has heard so often that he believes they are his own; or
Aunt Maisie, whose early disappointment in love has left her both
dreamy and cynical. Funny, direct and moving, The Bend For Home is
a family portrait like no other, and a hugely engaging account of a
childhood in small-town Ireland.
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.
Ollie Ewing is barely surviving. Back home in Sligo after 'a few
experiences' in London, he collects trolleys in a supermarket car
park and lives in a run-down house with a group of art students.
Tormented by old regrets and terrible fears -- vague recollections
of his brother's violent demise, and his best friend's grisly end
as a pile of charred bones in the back of a lorry -- he decides at
last to confront his demons.
For over three years, photographer Heike Thiele and writer Winifred
McNulty have captured images and stories from the last traditional
shops in the North West of Ireland. Their journey - across Donegal,
Leitrim, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Sligo and Cavan -has taken them through
an Aladdin's Cave of drapery and hardware, to abandoned creameries
and shops where empty shelves are filled only with the stories of
different times. Based on a series of highly successful exhibitions
across the North West, this book is a highly visual record of the
stories of changing face of rural Ireland.
From "Ireland's finest living novelist" (Roddy Doyle)--a funny,
moving, exquisitely written novel about a community on the cusp of
change Acclaimed Irish author Dermot Healy's first novel in more
than ten years is a rich, beguiling, and wonderfully funny story
about community, family, love, and bonds across generations, an
epic in miniature that features an unforgettable cast of innocents
and broken eccentrics. The novel presents the bemusing and
unsettling misadventures of Philip Feeney, known to one and all as
Mister Psyche, a teenager haunted by a recent traumatic event who
takes up with two men some fifty years his senior. Its still,
lyrical power casts a miraculous literary spell and will appeal to
readers of William Trevor, Roddy Doyle, John McGahern, and Anne
Enright.
Authors like Annie Proulx, John Banville, Derek Mahon, Dermot
Healy, and Higgins himself, represented by a previously uncollected
essay, offer a variety of critical and creative commentaries, while
scholars such as Keith Hopper, Peter van de Kamp, George O Brien,
and Gerry Dukes contribute exciting new perspectives on all aspects
of Higgins s writing, including his radio plays, his critical work,
and the Harold Pinter film adaptation of Langrishe, Go Down.
Langrishe too is revisited, while convincing cases are made for the
major significance of later novels such as Bornholm Night-Ferry and
Lions of the Grunewald, as well as Higgins s unorthodox trilogy of
autobiographies. This collection confirms the enduring significance
of Aidan Higgins as one of the major writers of our time, and also
offers testament that Higgins s work is being rediscovered by a new
generation of critics and writers.
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