Long Time No See
by Dermot Healy
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Pub Date Jun 10 2011 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Description
Long Time, No See introduces us to the unforgettable world of Mister Psyche in the isolated coastal townland of Ballintra in the north-west of Ireland. Recent school-leaver, occasional worker, full-time companion and Malibu-provider to Uncle Joe-Joe and his friend The Blackbird, Psyche is a boy on the cusp of adulthood, undone by a recent traumatic event.
Hanging out with men some fifty-plus years his senior proves hazardous for Mister Psyche when the appearance of a bullet-hole in Uncle Joe-Joe’s window draws him into a series of (mis)adventures which unsettle and bemuse. Perhaps The Blackbird is losing it? Or perhaps The General has decided to act on a decades-old grudge? Whichever way, as the paranoia grabs a creeping hold of Uncle Joe-Joe, his fragile world threatens to collapse. And it is Mister Psyche who must digest this and acknowledge the new world taking shape in the old.
A novel about community, family, love and bonds across generations, Long Time, No See is one of the most significant novels to come out of Ireland in this new century. An epic in miniature, peopled by a cast of innocents and broken misfits, its still, lyrical power casts a miraculous literary spell.
Dermot Healy is an Irish poet, novelist and dramatist. He lives in County Sligo and is the author of A Goat’s Song, Sudden Times and The Bend for Home. He has previously won the Hennessy Award (twice), the Tom Gallon Award, the Encore Award and the AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund Literary Award.
Advance Praise
'Among the Irish, Dermot Healy is the writers' writer. He is the man.' - Anne Enright, winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Gathering
"Funny, mad and beautifully human novel....Dermot Healy is Ireland's greatest writer." - Roddy Doyle, winner of the Man Booker Prize for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
"Long Time, No See will bring Dermot Healy to the wide recognition he deserves. An extraordinary maze of a novel; a brilliant, crazed, cruel and savagely funny book by a writer at the peak of his mighty powers.‟ - Frank McGuinness, award-winning playwright of Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
„This new novel is an utterly unique treasure. I think it must be his way of stripping away the caricatures of rural Ireland and presenting the true, unremarkable lives of Irish people. Again and again, I found myself going back to read over dialogue and descriptions of the characters in a shifting landscape, wondering how he can turn with such clarity on the space of a small coin.‟ - Hugo Hamilton, author of the bestselling memoir, The Speckled People
'It's a gentle novel, gentle in its effect, gently written, but bloody devastating when you reach the end. It possesses a guilelessness and authenticity that is wholly compelling and rings true. The evocation of place and of the natural world is of course outstanding, as readers have come to expect from Dermot Healy. - Claire Kilroy, winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for All Summer
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781552788776 |
| PRICE | 24.95 |
| PAGES | 512 |
