I Have Heard You Calling in the Night by Thomas Healy

I Have Heard You Calling in the Night by Thomas Healy

'I had been sober for most of that summer. An occasional slip now and then, but nothing compared to my former drinking. I was learning new things about myself. That I was as big a sucker for affection, even from a dog, as any man who ever lived. Martin brought out the boy in me. The surprise was that, in my basic nature, I had hardly changed at all. In many ways I was a ten year old in the body of a man. I was not hard or tough at all.' Thomas Healy was a drunk, a fighter, often unemployed, no stranger to the Glasgow police or to the courts. He came from the Gorbals, that byword for hard men and the school of hard knocks, and his life was going nowhere other than downhill. Then one day he bought a pup - a Doberman. He called him Martin. Gradually man and dog became unshakeable allies, the closest of comrades, the best of friends. Martin, in more ways than one, saved Thomas Healy's life. This is a story of one man and his dog. Such things can be sentimental. Healy's is a memoir written with refreshing originality and love.

"* 'Healy writes what he feels, and you're carried away with his enthusiasm..Healy writes beautifully, unsentimentally, rhythmically' James Scott, Scotsman * 'This is great stuff... Due respect to Thomas Healy - he's written his own sort of book and it's a beauty' Andrew O'Hagan, author of Personality * 'The brave insistence on a personal mythology is comparable to the best of Genet and written in scrupulous, scoured prose' Alan Warner, author of Movern Callar"

Thomas Healy grew up in the Gorbals, Glasgow in the 1950s. He left school at fifteen and has worked as, among other things, a shunter in a railway yard, a reporter on the Glasgow Herald and a security guard at a meat market. He is the author of a book about boxing, The Hurting Business, and two novels: It Might Have Been Jerusalem and Rolling. He lives in Glasgow.

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ISBN 13	9781862078130
ISBN 10	1862078130
Title	I Have Heard You Calling in the Night
Author	Thomas Healy
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Granta Books
Year published	2006-02-06
Number of pages	160
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