A Goat's Song

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A Goat's Song is a 1994 novel by Dermot Healy. It is considered by others as his finest and most famous work. [1] [2] [3]

According to Michael Harding's critique of the book, Healy "excelled himself in revealing the Irish male as the dreamer, the broken thing that a man becomes when the women have gone away." [1] The book centres on playwright Jack Ferris, his love affair with Catherine Adams and her father Jonathan, an RUC sergeant. [2] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Harding, Michael (1 July 2014). "Dermot Healy was afflicted with an unruly mind" . Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  2. 1 2 O'Hagan, Sean (3 April 2011). "Dermot Healy: 'I try to stay out of it and let the reader take over'". The Observer . Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  3. Battersby, Eileen (30 June 2014). "Poet and novelist Dermot Healy dies aged 66: He is as important a social commentator as John McGahern and John B Keane" . Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  4. Adair, Tom (4 June 1994). "Tragic exile in Ireland" . The Independent . Archived from the original on 7 July 2014.