Fighting with shadows or, Sciamachy
By: by Dermot Healy ; edited, with an introduction, by Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper
Contributors: Murphy, Neil, editor, writer of introduction; Hopper, Keith, editor writer of introduction
Edition: First Dalkey Archive edition
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Champaign
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781564785855
Subjects: Fiction
Other titles: Fighting with shadows.; Sciamachy.
Description: "Fighting with Shadows 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. The imagination's encounter with reality registers Dermot Healey's relentless fascination with the way things are seen and with the things themselves, or the "erotica of little things." A realist account and nightmarish fable, Fighting with Shadows is critical to the history of modern Irish fiction" --
Notes: "Originally co-published in 1984 by Allison & Busby and Brandon Books; a second edition was published in 1986 by Allison & Busby" -- Verso title page.

Includes bibliographical references.