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A Goat's Song
A Goat's Song | Dermot Healy
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In a wind-battered Mayo cottage, playwright Jack Ferris tries to salvage something from his broken love affair with Catherine Adams. Drink and despair drove her away; can his imagination call her back? But as he summons up her past, Jack finds he has also called up Catherine's RUC father and a whole dangerous world of opposed traditions.
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Minervasbutler
A Goat's Song | Dermot Healy
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Two doomed, drink-soaked lovers foreground a poetic evocation of the sectarianism that lies like an open wound over Irish history. Slow, meandering, but rather wonderful.

Nute I like slow and meandering!🙂 3y
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Infuriating. Fucked up. Surprisingly profound at times. Beautifully written. Ultimately not my kind of story but I finished it anyway.

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No one:

This man: a guy committed suicide when she was a child and she found his body and now she has dreams about having sex with his disembodied penis.

Men are wild.