Fighting with Shadows Or, Sciamachy

by Dermot Healy

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564785858
• ISBN13: 9781564785855
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher