A Goat's Song

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Publisher's Synopsis

Discover the classic novel of 'a modern master' (Irish Times)

'His great masterpiece.' Kevin Barry
'A rare and powerful book.' E. Annie Proulx
'One of those books that makes its own language.' Anne Enright

Jack Ferris, playwright, drunk, is mired in contemplative misery in a fisherman's cottage on the windy bleak west coast of Ireland. Mourning his love affair with Catherine Adams, an actress and Protestant from the North, he summons her instead in his imagination. In doing so, he tells the story of her father Jonathan, failed parson and retired RUC man, shamed into exile by a moment of violence in Derry years ago. Masterly, elegiac, A Goat's Song conjures the contrasting landscapes and opposing myths of a nation divided.

Book information

ISBN: 9780571281817
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Pub date:
Edition: Reprint
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 381
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 328g
Height: 201mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 29mm