The Glass Cage

Nearly four decades after his acclaimed memoir ‘The Grass Arena’, John Healy delivers the long-awaited second volume of his extraordinary life. ‘The Glass Cage’ begins in the wake of sudden literary success and fragile sobriety, as Healy attempts to inhabit a world far removed from the prisons, streets and wino jungle that shaped him. Thrust into publishing, publicity and middle-class expectation, he finds himself disoriented by power, privilege and the subtle humiliations of class.