The bend for home by dermot healy first edition, second. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Gale academic onefile document poems of our climate. Dec 31, 1996 dermot healy born 1947 in finnea, county westmeath, ireland was an irish novelist, playwright and poet. Whether he is describing the familys move from the sleepy village of finea, county westmeath, to the bustling market town of cavan.
Condition very good cloth copy in a nearfine, very slightly edgenicked and dustdulled dw, now mylarsleeved. Born in finea, county westmeath, he lived in county sligo, and was described variously as a master, a celtic hemingway and as irelands. Read the bend for home by dermot healy available from rakuten kobo. A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. One day, years after hes moved away from his childhood home in rural ireland, dermot healy returns to care for his ailing mother. Nov 03, 2016 the bend for home is a family memoir dermot healy explores the obduracy of memory and the vagaries of recollection. Fast and free shipping free returns cash on delivery available on eligible purchase. The bend for home a memoir by dermot healy memoirs fall into two types those which delineate extraordinary lives or those which are so well written that the ordinary is transformed. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the bend for home. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading. Buy the bend for home first edition, second impression by healy, dermot. Ebook pdf epub download the bend for home by dermot healy.
Dermot healy was born in westmeath in 1947, and was an irish novelist. The bend for home healy, dermot 9780156011648 amazon. Buy the bend for home book online at low prices in. This is a marvellous book, satisfying on just about every one of its many diverting and artful levels. Ebook pdf epub download the bend for home by dermot healy pdf. Hello select your address mobiles best sellers todays deals computers pantry books best sellers todays deals computers pantry books. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Bend for home hb healy, dermot 9781860460814 amazon. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Apr 03, 2011 irish author dermot healy tells sean ohagan how his latest novel was shaped largely by what he decided to leave out.
The bend for home by dermot healy 30sep1996 hardcover on. The irish writer dermot healy, who has died aged 66, was once described. Jul 07, 2016 dermot healy was a poet, novelist and dramatist. Buy the bend for home by dermot healy from waterstones today. The best account of this world, of course, is in his memoir, the bend for home. The irish writer dermot healy, described as irelands greatest. Dermot healy has 22 books on goodreads with 2853 ratings. Buy the bend for home by dermot healy online at alibris. Town, an experience he recalled in his memoir the bend for home.
Read ebook pdf epub download the bend for home by dermot healy pdf. Buy the bend for home book online at low prices in india. Patrick mccabe on healy s book the bend for home in. The bend for home by dermot healy 30sep1996 hardcover. Buy the bend for home by healy, dermot online on amazon. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. Novelist and poet healy has produced not a memoir, as claimed, but an episodic novel in the form of a memoir. Ebook pdf epub download the bend for home by dermot healy pdf 200. Buy the bend for home book online at best prices in india on. His fellow writer pat mccabe described the latter book as probably the.
Dermot healy has been a presence in irish literature for some time. Dermot healy 9 november 1947 29 june 2014 was an irish novelist, playwright, poet and. Dermot healy was born 1947 in county westmeath, ireland and was a novelist, playwright and poet. The bend for home ebook by dermot healy 9781448443. His books include the novels a goats song and sudden times and the memoir the bend for home.
The bend for home 9781860460814 by healy, dermot and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. Out of the blue she hands him the forgotten diary he had kept as a fifteenyearold. Ryan tubridy is writing a childrens book this summer. Fighting with shadows, the bend for home a memoir, sudden times. He won the hennessy award 1974 and 1976, the tom gallon award 1983, and the encore award 1995. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. The bend for home dermot healy 9780571281886 allen. Dermot healy the collected plays by dermot healy keith hopper. Writer dermot healy pictured near his home in ballyconnell west, co. He is amazed to find the makings of the writer he has become, as well as taken aback at the changes his memory has wrought upon the events of the past. The bend for home quotes by dermot healy goodreads. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. Presentation mode open print download current view.
Sep 30, 1996 the bend for home by dermot healy 19960930 dermot healy on. Although dermot healy 19472014 is probably best known as an awardwinning novelist and poet, he was also a prolific playwright, screenwriter, and actor. A terrific novel, bouncing off the ropes, the best novel to come out of ireland. He is amazed to find the makings of the writer he has become, as well as taken aback at the changes his memory has wrought. A funny, direct, lively and moving account of growing up in smalltown ireland. In a family memoir like no other, dermot healy explores the obduracy of memory and the vagaries of recollection. Later in the book, healy goes on to assert that memory is always incomplete, like a. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. Please expect some creasing to the spine andor minor damage to the cover. Dermot healy was a singularly plural irish writera playwright, actor, novelist, shortstory writer, autobiographer and poet. He was longlisted for the booker prize with his novel a goats song. The bend for home by healy, dermot, 1947publication date 1998 topics.
Healy s lengthy dialogues are clearly novelistic, and his accounts, sometimes explicit, of randy teenagers, lascivious priests and ill and dying elderly villagers, although cliches of irish autobiography, are given freshness here. George obrien, irish times it would be hard to exaggerate the excellence of healy s writing. He won the hennessy award twice, the tom gallon award, the encore award and the awb vincent american ireland fund literary award. Dispatched, from the uk, within 48 hours of ordering. The bend for home 9780156011648 by healy, dermot and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. Dermot healy born 1947 in finnea, county westmeath, ireland was an irish novelist, playwright and poet. Born in finea, county westmeath, he lived in county sligo, and was described variously as a master, a celtic hemingway and as irelands finest living novelist. He lived in county sligo and was the author of a goats song, sudden times, the bend for home and long time, no see. The slender narrative thread is the slow disintegration of healy s father, a policeman retired for failing health. He is amazed to find the makings of the writer he has become, as well as taken aback at the. Dermot healy 9 november 1947 29 june 2014 was an irish novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer. A member of aosdana, healy was also part of its governing body, the toscaireacht.
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