Dermot Healy, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-100304-4
Novelist and poet Healy has produced not a memoir, as claimed, but an episodic novel in the form of a memoir. Writers, he contends, ""not only make up things, but get things wrong as well. Language, to be memorable, dispenses with accuracy."" That...
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Dermot Healy, Author Viking Books $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-670-86156-9
Healy addresses the antipathies of contemporary Ireland-the whole island, both Ulster and the Republic of Ireland-with dogged intensity and honesty. Effectively the story of the breakup of the relationship between Catholic playwright Jack Ferris and
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Dermot Healy. Viking, $27.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-670-02360-8
Healy (A Goat’s Song) writes early on in his latest novel, “It’s extraordinary how ordinary life is,” and spends the remainder of the story exploring the mundane. Philip Feeney (aka Mister Psyche) is fresh out of secondary school, living with his...
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Dermot Healy, Author, Drenka Willen, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-100578-9
Already recognized as one of Ireland's best contemporary writers, Healy (Goat Song; The Bend for Home) makes good his reputation with this explosive, if somewhat truncated, third novel. In vivid, disjunctive prose, the sentences short and tumbling,...
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