A Goat's Song

A Goat's Song is a 1994 novel by Dermot Healy. It is considered by others as his finest and most famous work.[1][2][3]

According to Michael Harding's critique of the book, Healy "excelled himself in revealing the Irish male as the dreamer, the broken thing that a man becomes when the women have gone away."[1] The book centres on playwright Jack Ferris, his love affair with Catherine Adams and her father Jonathan, an RUC sergeant.[2][4]

References

1. Harding, Michael (1 July 2014). "Dermot Healy was afflicted with an unruly mind". Retrieved 1 July 2014.
2. O'Hagan, Sean (3 April 2011). "Dermot Healy: 'I try to stay out of it and let the reader take over'". The Observer. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
3. Battersby, Eileen (30 June 2014). "Poet and novelist Dermot Healy dies aged 66: He is as important a social commentator as John McGahern and John B Keane". Retrieved 30 June 2014.
4. Adair, Tom (4 June 1994). "Tragic exile in Ireland". The Independent.