Description:
Willie Ryan returns to his home town having escaped from the insane asylum where he was committed by his devout Catholic family for twenty-five years. The given pretext for his commitment was an attack on his sister-in-law, Mary Ryan. The true reason: an affair with a hedonistic young man who introduced him to art, literature and music.
Review Quotes: "John Broderick explores frustrated life, soured ideals and the pattern of dark religious and anti-religious stupidity in an Irish town...he is one determined and melancholy kind of realist."