Barracks, Paperback - John McGahern

Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. her husband is straining to ...

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 d...

A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical in London where h...

Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age...

In them his canon of great writers - Tolstoy, Chekhov, James, Proust and Joyce - is cited many times, with deep and subtle appreciation. His interv...

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This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern's short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. McGahern has long been recognized...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

John McGahern is widely considered to be one of Ireland's greatest writers, with fans including John Updike, Hilary Mantel, Colm Toibin and John Ba...

The collected letters of John McGahern, 'arguably the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett.' (Guardian)Publisher: Faber & FaberNumber...

Surveys the life and work of the successful Irish novelist and short story writer whose career was launched with the 1963 publication of ""The Barr...

That They May Face the Rising Sun was the last novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland's greatest novelists. In passages of beauty and truth, the ...

DescriptionThis collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assu...

Publisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s): Lori RogersNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 138 x 215 x 12Cover type: Paperba...

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3 reissues of McGahern's moving and accomplished novels set in Ireland. From the author of the acclaimed }That They May Face The Rising Sun{.

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