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Authors: Dermot Healy
Dermot Healy was a poet, novelist and dramatist. He lived in County Sligo and was the author of
A Goat’s Song, Sudden Times, The Bend for Home
and
Long Time, No See.
He won the Hennessy Award (twice), the Tom Gallon Award, the Encore Award and the AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund Literary Award. He died in 2014.
fiction
BANISHED MISFORTUNE & OTHER STORIES
FIGHTING WITH SHADOWS
A GOAT’S SONG
SUDDEN TIMES
LONG TIME, NO SEE
non-fiction
THE BEND FOR HOME
plays
HERE AND THERE AND GOING TO AMERICA
THE LONG SWIM
CURTAINS
ON BROKEN WINGS
LAST NIGHT’S FUN
BOXES
MISTER STAINES
METAGAMA
A NIGHT AT THE DISCO
poetry
NEIGHBOURS’ LIGHTS
THE BALLYCONNEL COLOURS
WHAT THE HAMMER
THE REED BED
A FOOL’S ERRAND
First published in the UK in 1996 by The Harvill Press
First published in this edition in 2016
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This ebook edition first published in 2016
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ISBN 978–0–571–28189–3