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Viking Adult
July 2012
On Sale: July 5, 2012
448 pages
ISBN: 0670023604
EAN: 9780670023608
Kindle: B0072O019C
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Celebrated Irish author Dermot Healy’s first novel in more
than ten years is a rich, beguiling, compassionate, and
wonderfully funny story about community, family, love, and
bonds across generations. Set in an isolated coastal town in northwest Ireland, Long
Time, No See centers around an unforgettable cast of
innocents and wounded, broken misfits. The story is narrated
by a young man known as Mister Psyche who takes up with and
is then drawn into a series of bemusing and unsettling
misadventures with two men some fifty years his senior—his
grand uncle Joejoe and Joejoe’s neighbor The
Blackbird—wonderful, eccentric characters full of ancient
jealousies and grudges and holding some very dark secrets. Written with great lyrical power and a vivid sense of place
and published to rapturous reviews in England and Ireland,
Long Time, No See is a sad-comic tapestry of life and death
that celebrates the incredibly rich lives of ordinary people.
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