Sudden Times by Dermot Healy
Ollie Ewing is barely surviving. Back home in Sligo, he's collecting trolleys in a supermarket car park and living in a run-down house with a group of art students. He has lost his child-like innocence and he can't escape what has happened in London. Tormented by old fears and regrets, he loses himself in everyday routine and is kept going by his painfully black sense of humour. Finally, Ollie steels himself to return to England to confront his demons. He re-enters a world of casual labour and protection rackets on the building sites of London; a world peopled by sinister figures such as Silver John and Scots Bob; an intimidating world of uncertain justice where violence will easily erupt. Sudden Times is a powerful and shocking psychological thriller, revealing its truth through a growing awareness of the skewed and unreliable consciousness of its narrator. The result is a masterpiece of sustained tension.
Dermot Healy was born in Finea, Co. Westmeath, Ireland, in 1947. He is the author of two novels, Fighting with Shadows (1984) and A Goat's Song (1994), which won the Encore Award; a volume of memoirs, The Bend for Home (1996), and a collection of short stories. He is also a playwright, a poet and the editor of the journal Force 10.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781860466816 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860466818 |
| Title | Sudden Times |
| Author | Dermot Healy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1999-09-23 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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