Books by john mcgahern

In this "autumnal novel" ("The Atlantic Monthly"), the writer who has been called the Irish Chekhov guides readers into a fictional village in rural ... More

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

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"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 ... More

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This is the first novel by John McGahern, originally published in 1963. Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the ... More

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Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while ... More

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Set in rural Ireland, John McGahern's second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by ... More

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This title includes stories by one of the outstanding Irish writers of today, author of "Nightlines", "The Barracks", "The Dark", "The Leavetaking", ... More

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Gathered in one volume for the first time, the complete short stories of one of today's most acclaimed Irish writers. McGahern combines a rich, ... More

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From award-winning author John McGahern, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer. McGahern ... More

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The stories in "High Ground" are set in ordinary places, in the streets and suburbs and dancehalls of Dublin, the small towns and fields of the ... More

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Those who have called John McGahern a modern Chekhov are struck by his ability to transform commonplace experiences into moments of epiphany. In ... More

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This book tells of a day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical ... More

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This is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement, and his own discovery of literature and his ... More

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McGahern's command of the short story places him among the finest practitioners of the form, in a lineage that runs from Chekhov through Joyce and ... More

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Called one of "the greatest Irish writers" ("The New York Times Book Review"), McGahern reveals in this memoir the details of his troubled, early ... More

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This collection of short stories are from the author shortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize with his book "Amongst Women". John McGahern is also the ... More

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This definitive book brings together all the surviving non-fiction of John McGahern, whose work has entered the canon of modern prose. While nearly ... More

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'As wise and compelling a book as any of his elegiac and graceful novels.' David MitchellThis is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his ... More

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