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Collected Stories of John McGahern
These 34 funny, tragic, bracing, and acerbic stories represent the complete short fiction of one of Ireland's finest living writers. On struggling farms, in Dublin's rain-drenched …
Collected Stories
A landmark event: the collected stories of 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin). 'Wise and …
Letters of John McGahern
I am no good at letters. John McGahern, 1963John McGahern is consistently hailed as one of the finest Irish writers since James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.This volume collects some …
High Ground
The stories inHigh Ground are set in ordinary places, in the streets and suburbs and dancehalls of Dublin, the small towns and fields of the midlands, the big houses of the …
John McGahern
John McGahern (1934-2006) believed that fiction could act as a window on the world. Such windows, however, frame our fields of vision, alter and shape our perspectives. Far from …
Leavetaking
A haunting novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin). A day, crucial and cathartic, in the …
John McGahern
This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creative writing and literary …
Amongst Women
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIMEMcGahern's 'masterpiece: the sort of book which you can give anyone of any age and know that they will be …
John McGahern and the Art of Memory
In 2005, when John McGahern published his Memoir, he revealed for the first time in explicit detail the specific nature of the autobiographical dimension of his fiction, a …
John McGahern and Modernism
John McGahern's work is not easily conceived of as belatedly modernist. His memorialising, faintly archaic style implies a concern with 'making it old' rather than new, suggesting …