Location: Ireland
Member Since: May 22, 2011

Kevin Healy

Smashwords book reviews by Kevin Healy

  • Centre Circle on May 26, 2011

    They say you should only write about things you know. Presumably this means things you know from personal experience or things you have researched fairly deeply. The author of “Centre Circle” certainly knows his subject and has an impressive talent for revealing, with absolute realism, what goes on in the mind of a victim of addiction. He pulls no punches. By means of a long monologue, it could make a good one-man play, he reveals the denial, the cunning, the deviousness, the heartbreak, the self loathing and the long, emotionally searing journey to the point where all pretence falls away and he is left seeing himself for what and where he is. The story ends on a hopeful note but the reader is left hanging on the slender threads of that hope. He has a beautiful talent for the colourful and apt phrase. Of a fellow alcoholic who recovers he says “No one ever thought he’d …make it to the other side of the street. “ “Santa” brings a sudden, unexpected laugh. But it’s a grim story and a good read.
  • Pilate Under Pressure on June 26, 2011

    If Matthew ever gets to read this script he will pause, read it again, just to check, and then wonder how the hell Walsh got hold of his notes. These are the bits he left out of his book because it shows Pilate in too human a light and his readers wouldn't have wanted that. This play rounds out the story in Matthew's gospel. It fills in the gaps in a manner that is almost Ignatian. Read this play, get to see it on stage someday and you will have a better understanding of what happened on that dark night in Jerusalem. Kevin Healy.