Country Funeral. Faber Stories, Paperback - John McGahern

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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{.

Death returns to the country ...A quite country life continues to elude Helen Lightholder, as she wrestles with her recent bereavement. When the gr...

Widely considered an outstanding and unique figure in French literature, Genet wrote five novels between 1942 and 1947, now being republished by Fa...

"My name is Ruby. I live with Barbara and Mick. They're not my real parents, but they tell me what to do, and what to say. I'm supposed to say that...

it is only a matter of time before she snaps. Edna O'Brien crafts a quietly horrifying scene of eroticism and insecurity, and makes one woman's nea...

Through stories within stories Chandra tells a spiralling tale of loss, and of two wounded people becoming something new. Borrowing a structure fro...

Between his second and third tours of duty, a soldier returns home. To his former home, that is, using an old key while the new tenant is at work.

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

Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goe...

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

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

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

Either way, this fragmented evocation of unrequited desire is, in the words of Joyce's biographer Richard Ellmann, a work of 'small, fragile, endur...

Yet when Linda gets engaged, Madge starts to feel an intangible peril gathering around the girl. ____In each of these short, sharp stories, the lon...

Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of this woman he was in love with.

Very modern ghost stories from the Booker-nominated author of The Wall.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): John LanchesterNumber of pages: 240Public...

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

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

Her story was this: she had been an orphan, her mother probably a whore. That's true of what brought her here too: was she IRA, or did she just tak...

The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put the...