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Amongst Women by John McGahern
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past. ...Show more
By the Lake by John McGahern
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
With this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces its natural rhythms and the inner lives of its people. Here are the Ruttledges, who have forsaken the glit ...Show more
Creatures of the Earth by John McGahern
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 the Anglo-American masters. When the collection was first published in 1992, the "Sunday Times" said 'there is a vivid pleasure to be had in the reading of t ...Show more
Love of the World: Essays by John McGahern
$50.00 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies
This definitive book brings together all the surviving non-fiction of John McGahern, whose work has entered the canon of modern prose. While nearly all of McGahern's creative energy went into his novels and stories, his non-fiction writings are of interest to anyone who cares about his work, and to all ...Show more
Love of the World - Essays by John McGahern
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies | Reading Level: very good
John McGahern did not spread himself thinly as a writer. Nearly all of his creative energy went into what was central for him: the great novels and stories that are now part of the canon of Irish and world literature. Yet he spoke out when he felt he had something worth saying and his non-fiction writin ...Show more
Memoir by John McGahern
$23.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
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
The Barracks by John McGahern
$24.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
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