In a family memoir like no other, Dermot Healy explores the obduracy of memory and the vagaries of recollection. At the center of the book is a diary the author kept as a boy and which his mother kept, returning it only in her last years.
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In a family memoir like no other, Dermot Healy explores the obduracy of memory and the vagaries of recollection. At the center of the book is a diary the author kept as a boy and which his mother kept, returning it only in her last years.
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G/G+ 0151003041. DJ, orange boards, orange cloth binding, NEW book, unused, unread, back cover slight vertical crease, so slightly bowed, very light soiling to page edges, light shelf wear to DJ.; 307 pages; Autobiography of this Irish poet, playwright and novelist.
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New York. 1998. March 1998. Harcourt Brace. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0151003041. 307 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Vaughn Andrews. keywords: Literature Ireland Autobiography. FROM THE PUBLISHER-One day, years after he's moved away from his childhood home in rural Ireland, Dermot Healy returns to care for his ailing mother. Out of the blue she hands him the forgotten diary he had kept as a fifteen-year-old. He is amazed to find the makings of the writer he has become, as well as taken aback at the changes his memory has wrought upon the events of the past. Here is the seed of his story-the vision of the boy meets the memory of the man-which creates a stunning, illusory effect. The strange silhouettes who have haunted his past come back to inhabit these pages: his father, a kind policeman who guides him back to bed when he stumbles down the stairs sleepwalking; his mother, whose stories young Dermot has heard so often that he believes they are his own; or Aunt Masie, whose early disappointment in love has left her both dreamy and cynical. In this billowing and expansive series of recollections, Healy has traced the very shape of human memory. inventory #16791.
