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Memoir by John McGahern
Category: Fiction
This is the story of John McGahern's childhood, his mother's death, his father's anger and violence, and how, through his discovery of books, his dream of becoming a writer began.At the heart of Memoir is a son's unembarrassed tribute to his mother. His memory of walks with her through the narrow lanes ...Show more
Stoner - 50th Anniversary Edition by John Williams; John McGahern (Introduction by)
Category: Classics
Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. The critic Morris Dickstein has said that John Williams's Stoner "is something much rarer than a great novel - it is a perfect novel," and in t ...Show more
THE PORNOGRAPHER by MCGAHERN JOHN
Category: Fiction
Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fall in love with him. But his insensitivity to this love is in d ...Show more
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
Category: Fiction
Joel and Kate Ruttledge, have come to rural Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through action, the rituals of work, religious observances and play. By th ...Show more
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
Category: Fiction
"That They May Face the Rising Sun" was the last novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland's greatest novelists. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come to Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters ...Show more
The Barracks by McGahern, John
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Fiction Classics
After years of freedom - and loneliness - Elizabeth marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, this was McGahern's first novel.
The Barracks by John McGahern
Category: Fiction
This is the first novel by John McGahern, originally published in 1963. Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining against his job in the police force; and her own life, thre ...Show more
The Country Funeral: Faber Stories by John McGahern
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
"My only concern," John McGahern once said, "is that I get the sentence right and describe my world clearly and deeply." 'The Country Funeral' witnesses three brothers, John, Philly and Fonsie Ryan, as they travel west from Dublin to Gloria Bog - the heart of the territory where so many of McGahern's st ...Show more
The Dark by John McGahern
Category: Fiction
Set in rural Ireland, John McGahern's second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father. Against a background evoked with quiet, u ...Show more
The Letters of John McGahern by John McGahern
Category: Biography
'Magnificent.' Irish Times'Much to savour.' The Times'An event in Irish culture.' TLSThe collected letters of John McGahern, 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett.' (Guardian)John McGahern is consistently hailed as one of the ...Show more