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Sudden Times

Sudden Times

by Dermot Healy (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

    $3.80
Synopsis

Ollie is back home in Sligo, but his mind is still in London. He is keeping life simple, dealing with trolleys in the supermarket, dosing with some art students, treading quietly on the stairs, watching himself. But close his eyes and he's back in the city with his pal Marty, queuing for jobs on building sites and drinking in The Lag. At night the terror closes in: the gangsters, the protection rackets, Scots Bob and Silver John, his brother Redmond. Finally, he realizes that he must go back and face his ghosts.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01 Jun 2000
ISBN 10: 186046730X
ISBN 13: 9781860467301
Book Overview: Dermot Healy's A Goat's Song (1994) won the Encore Award.

Media Reviews
Sudden Times is the simplest, perhaps the most directly powerful of Dermot Healy's extraordinary novels. Comic and brutal, it has all the excitement of a page-turner and the immediacy of a poem. -Neil Jordan
Original and astringent and touching and eerily pure . . . a wonderful book which asks to be compared with Joyce and Beckett in more than just an idle way. -Times Literary Supplement
Author Bio
Dermot Healy was born in Finea, Co. Westmeath, Ireland in 1947. He is the author of two novels, Fighting with Shadows (1984) and A Goat's Song (1994), which won the Encore award; a volume of memoirs, The Bend for Home (1996), and a collection of short stories. He is also a playwright, a poet and the founding editor of the journal Force 10.