The Bend For Home (Panther S.) - Softcover
A funny, direct, lively and moving account of growing up in 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 burst in like a blast of raw air.
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Dermot Healy's extraordinary memoir of growing up in rural Ireland.
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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
"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
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1860463541
- ISBN 13 9781860463549
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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