A Goat's Song Condition:Very Good post-colonialism and new literatures

post-colonialism and new literatures

Learning to hone her abilities with four other gifted students

centre of the ancient empire

" --RICHARD DAWKINS

Illustrated by photos

A Goat's Song Condition:Very Good post-colonialism and new literaturesJack Ferris, playwright, drunk, is mired in contemplative misery in a fisherman's cottage on the windy bleak west coast of Ireland. Mourning his love affair with Catherine Adams, an actress and Protestant from the North, he summons her instead in his imagination. In doing so, he tells the story of her father Jonathan, failed parson and retired RUC man, shamed into exile by a moment of violence in Derry years ago. Masterly, elegiac, A Goat's Song