The Comps Reading Project part 7
A Goat's Song, Dermot Healy
Healy is sometimes called the "Celtic Hemingway," and his spare, meandering prose and stoic, broken male characters certainly belie that characterization. Shoot, if Hemingway himself hadn't already used the title, then Men Without Women would have also been an apropos title for this novel, wherein a sad-sack Irish playwright named Jack Ferris relapses into alcoholism after his lover Catherine Adams leaves him. Such a pariah has he become that the very th...
Healy is sometimes called the "Celtic Hemingway," and his spare, meandering prose and stoic, broken male characters certainly belie that characterization. Shoot, if Hemingway himself hadn't already used the title, then Men Without Women would have also been an apropos title for this novel, wherein a sad-sack Irish playwright named Jack Ferris relapses into alcoholism after his lover Catherine Adams leaves him. Such a pariah has he become that the very th...
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