Fighting with Shadows Or, Sciamachy

Initially published in 1984, Dermot Healy's stunning first novel, Fighting with Shadows, returns to print after almost thirty years. Largely set in the border village of Fanacross, Co. Fermanagh, as Ireland stumbles clumsily toward modernity, the Allen family negotiate a bitter and troubled terrain. Fighting with Shadows offers extraordinary and poetic glimpses of the compelling lives of ordinary people. The novel's landscape is of borderlands, of in-between spaces; it tells of violently sundered geographical borders, of maddening religious differences, of the anguished gaps between people as they struggle to find each other, and of how the dead reside among its inhabitants long after they've passed. At once realist account and nightmarish magic realist fable, Fighting with Shadows occupies a truly important position in the history of modern Irish fiction.

Author: Dermot Healy
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 10/16/2015
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781564785855
ISBN10: 1564785858
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | General