The Bend for Home - Hardcover

Healy, Dermot

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151003041 ISBN 13: 9780151003044

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998

Synopsis

A family memoir from the award-winning Irish writer, culled from his own boyhood diary, contains recollections of Healy's father, a kind policeman in failing health, his mother's oft-told stories, and his dreamy and cynical Aunt Masie. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

Book Description:

Dermot Healy's extraordinary memoir of growing up in rural Ireland.

From the Back Cover:

A funny, direct, lively and moving account of growing up in a small-town Ireland. Healy lovingly coaxes his childhood into being until, one day, his elderly mother hands him the coded diary he kept as a teenage tearaway and the uncut past bursts in like a blast of raw air.

"I found myself moved to tears by its devastating honesty, quiet lyricism and profound humanity. It's a terrific book." Arminta Wallace, Irish Times

"It hops and jumps through childhood and adolescence to the deaths of his father and mother, mixing the surreal with solid concrete, weaving humourwith a sustained sense of loss...Each page spills over with wonder." Aisling Foster, Independent on Sunday

"The writing is superb, intensely idiomatic without being obscure...the book leaves one with a sense of exhilaration." Catriona Crowe, London Review of Books

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0151003041
• ISBN 13: 9780151003044
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 305