Long Time, No See - Softcover

Healy, Dermot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143123432 ISBN 13: 9780143123439

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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Review

`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

Book Description

Long Time, No See is Dermot Healy's long-awaited new novel, from one of the greatest of contemporary Irish novelists in a stunning limited edition package.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0143123432
• ISBN 13: 9780143123439
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 448