A Goat's Song (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Healy, Dermot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156005824 ISBN 13: 9780156005821

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1998

Synopsis

An Irish playwright reimagines his estranged lover’s past in this “rare and powerful book”(E. Annie Proulx) whose “melancholy beauty resonates with the deepest truths” (Boston Globe).

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Review:

'A Goat's Song, the story of two savage break-ups, is a rare and powerful book . . . At the end, intellectually aroused, emotionally wrenched, stunned with the imagery of place and drink and crumpled hopes, I was literally shaking.' (E. Annie Proulx)

'A Goat's Song is one of the big Irish novels. It's a wrangle, an existential tussle, one of those books that makes its own language.' (Anne Enright)

'It is a beautiful piece of work; no doubt about it, the real stuff.' (James Kelman)

'I have read A Goat's Song three times now and I am going back to read it again . . . it haunts my dreams.' (Patrick McCabe)

'It is in its scope that A Goat's Song is most impressive. Healy interweaves a not quite documentary verisimilitude of landscape with the taut strands of the novel's strident, yet cloistered romance. His portrayal of the myths of Belfast and the West coast pierces through the stereotypes, while helping us to see clearly the justification for their existence . . . This wonderful celebration and lament creates its own hunger, its own momentum.' (Tom Adair Independent)

Book Description:

'One of the most powerful pieces of fiction to emerge from Ireland in the past few decades.' Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0156005824
• ISBN 13: 9780156005821
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 407