#Ireland: Dermot Healy

• Author: Dermot Healy  (1947-2014)
• Title: The Goat’s Song
• Published: 1994
• List of Challenges 2019
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• #ReadingIrelandMonth19
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Finished: 04.03.2019
Genre: novel
Rating: C

Conclusion:

1. Part 1: Alcoholic playwright
2. Part 2: Sergeant (father of actress) in RUC during The Troubles in No. Ireland
3. Part 3: Aspiring actress in a toxic relationship with playwright
   
4. ..and still sleeping her way to the top in the theatre world.
5. These are the basic components.
6. Part 1 and Part 3 were filled with the shenanigans of
7. Jack (stereotype alcoholic Irishman) and Catherine.
8. These lovers will never be compatible.
9. They do nothing, go nowhere and do it slowly.
10. It was like watching somebody kill themselves with a butter-knife.
11. Part 2 was the BEST.
12. Dermot Healy should have written the entire book about
13. the complex character Jonathan Adams (No. Irish policeman).
14. You sensed the fear Adams experienced
15. of being assassinated by the IRA.

 

Last thoughts:

• Strong point: the book…it is intense, part 2 is riveting.
• Weak point: the writing is not entrancing and beautiful throughout.
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