Dermot Healy: A Goat's Song [2015] paperback Condition:Very Good Under electrified fences and past

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Dermot Healy: A Goat's Song [2015] paperback Condition:Very Good Under electrified fences and pastJack 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