age ~71
from Tucson, AZ
Although Dermot Healy (1947-2014) is probably best known as an award-winning novelist and poet, he was also a prolific playwright, screenwriter, and actor. Healy’s interest in drama was long-standing, and was central to his development as a writer. Between 1985 and 2010 he wrote thirteen stage plays...
Author
Dermot Healy
Binding
Paperback
Pages
350
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN #
1564789306
EAN Code
9781564789303
ISBN #
8
" ... Neither Jeremy Fernando nor Julian Gough are literally concerned with the nominal subjects of their respective contributions to this book; that much seems clear, if anything can be clear in the face of their extravagant attempts to take perhaps the dominant icon of contemporary capitalism - th...
Author
Julian Gough, Jeremy Fernando, Neil Murphy
Binding
Paperback
Pages
96
Publisher
Delere Press
ISBN #
9810947674
EAN Code
9789810947675
ISBN #
6
This is the story of the author evacuated in 1939 at the age of six with his brother and sister from Sheffield to the safety of relatives in Cork in southern Ireland and his return to Britain in 1943. The second part of the book covers two more war years in his home city all but flattened by the Ger...
Author
Neil W. Murphy
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
241
Publisher
RoseTintedSpecs Imprint
ISBN #
2
A groundbreaking scientific study: researchers set out to determine whether monkeys with typewriters could actually recreate the entire works of Shakespeare, given an infinite amount of time. A satire on a literal interpretation of the infinite monkey theorem.
Author
Dan Burke, William Neil Murphy
Binding
Kindle Edition
ISBN #
10
"This book takes you up-close and personal with sixteen of the best marketing minds in the country. Collectively they have added billions of dollars to the bottom lines of businesses. Now, in one place, you can discover all of their secrets and tap into the same knowledge that others pay thousands o...
Author
Dale Beaumont, Neil Murphy
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
373
Publisher
Dream Express International
ISBN #
9
Aidan Higgins's great novel has long been unavailable, and is here reissued in a new and revised edition. "Balcony of Europe" tells the story of a young Jewish wife from San Francisco and a middle-aged Irish painter who meet in a village on the coast of Spain, beginning an affair during the coldest ...
Author
Aidan Higgins
Binding
Paperback
Pages
425
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN #
1564785386
EAN Code
9781564785381
ISBN #
5
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....
Author
Dermot Healy
Binding
Paperback
Pages
320
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN #
1564785858
EAN Code
9781564785855
ISBN #
4
Like many of the great Irish writers before him, Dermot Healy first announced himself as a writer of intricate and innovative short stories. Healy’s stories are set in small-town Ireland and its rural environs, and in the equally suffocating confines of the Irish expat communities in London. Through...
Author
Dermot Healy
Binding
Paperback
Pages
288
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN #
1564786781
EAN Code
9781564786784
ISBN #
3