Long Time, No See by Dermot Healy

Long Time, No See by Dermot Healy

Acclaimed Irish author Dermot Healy's first novel in more than ten years is a rich, beguiling, and wonderfully funny story about community, family, love, and bonds across generations, an epic in miniature that features an unforgettable cast of innocents and broken eccentrics. The novel presents the bemusing and unsettling misadventures of Philip Feeney, known to one and all as Mister Psyche, a teenager haunted by a recent traumatic event who takes up with two men some fifty years his senior. Its still, lyrical power casts a miraculous literary spell and will appeal to readers of William Trevor, Roddy Doyle, John McGahern, and Anne Enright.

Dermot Healy (1947-2014) was born in Cavan, Ireland, near the Northern Ireland border. Healy settled in Ballyconnell, Co. Tyrone, after periods in London and Belfast. He started and edited the journal Force 10 in Sligo. Banished Misfortune and Other Tales (1982), his first book, was followed by four novels and The Bend for Home (1996), an acclaimed memoir. Healy also written five collections of poetry and thirteen theatrical plays (Dalkey Archive Press will publish his Collected Plays in 2016).