A Goat's Song is a 1994 novel by Dermot Healy. It is considered by others as his finest and most famous work.
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." The book centres on playwright Jack Ferris, his love affair with Catherine Adams and her father Jonathan, an RUC sergeant.
References
- ^ Harding, Michael (1 July 2014). "Dermot Healy was afflicted with an unruly mind". Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ 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.
- 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.
- Adair, Tom (4 June 1994). "Tragic exile in Ireland". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014.
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