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Melancholic Irish love story.

A Goat's Song is a book for those who enjoy complex and introspective characters, as well as the unique setting of rural Ireland. The novel weaves through the past with a lyrical and haunting prose that captures the raw emotions of love, grief, and regret. Its beauty lies in the vivid and authentic portrayal of the Irish landscape, and the deep insights into the human psyche that Healy delivers with a masterful stroke.

  • RSL Encore Award (1995)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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A Goat's Song

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ISBN: 9780571281817
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $21.10
Authors: Dermot Healy
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Date of Publication: 2012-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 4.13
(rated by 472 readers)

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Jack Ferris, playwright, drunk, is mired in contemplative misery in a fisherman's cottage on the windy bleak west coast of Ireland. Mourning his love affair with Catherine Adams, an actress and Protestant from the North, he summons her instead in his imagination. In doing so, he tells the story of her father Jonathan, failed parson and retired RUC man, shamed into exile by a moment of violence in Derry years ago. Masterly, elegiac, A Goat's Song conjures the contrasting landscapes and opposing myths of a nation divided.
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Melancholic Irish love story.

A Goat's Song is a book for those who enjoy complex and introspective characters, as well as the unique setting of rural Ireland. The novel weaves through the past with a lyrical and haunting prose that captures the raw emotions of love, grief, and regret. Its beauty lies in the vivid and authentic portrayal of the Irish landscape, and the deep insights into the human psyche that Healy delivers with a masterful stroke.

  • RSL Encore Award (1995)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.