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Amongst Women
John McGahern

ISBN10: 0571225640 ISBN13: 9780571225644
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 23 Sep 2006
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 ... More

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ISBN: 9780571237852 - Creatures of the Earth

Creatures of the Earth
John McGahern

ISBN10: 0571237851 ISBN13: 9780571237852
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Jul 2007
A collection of short stories. 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... More

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The Barracks
John McGahern

ISBN10: 0571248829 ISBN13: 9780571248827
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 May 2009
Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own, and her husband is straining against his job in the police force. Moving between tragedy and savage... More

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The Dark
John McGahern

ISBN10: 0571225675 ISBN13: 9780571225675
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Jun 2008
A novel about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father. Set in rural Ireland... More

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ISBN: 9780571225729 - That They May Face the Rising Sun

That They May Face the Rising Sun
John McGahern

ISBN10: 0571225721 ISBN13: 9780571225729
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Dec 2006
Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come to Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the action... More

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Memoir
John McGahern

ISBN10: 0571228119 ISBN13: 9780571228119
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jun 2006
A family story, told with restraint and tenderness. This book is a son's unembarrassed tribute to his mother. His memory of walks with her through the narrow lanes to the country schools where she taught and his happiness as she named for him the... More

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The Leavetaking
John McGahern

ISBN10: 0571225705 ISBN13: 9780571225705
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Dec 2006
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 in London where he married an American divorcee. This book tells of a day, crucial and cathartic... More

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Love of the World
John McGahern

ISBN10: 0571245129 ISBN13: 9780571245123
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Jun 2010
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 part of the canon of Irish and world literature. This book brings together... More

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High Ground
John McGahern

ISBN10: 0571225691 ISBN13: 9780571225699
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Dec 2006
Includes stories that 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 beleaguered Anglo-Irish in the aftermath of their ascendancy, and the whole... More

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Getting Through
John McGahern

ISBN10: 0571225683 ISBN13: 9780571225682
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Dec 2006
Includes stories by the author of "Nightlines", "The Barracks", "The Dark", "The Leavetaking", "The Pornographer", "High Ground", "Amongst Women" (nominated for the Booker Prize in 1990) and "That They May Face the Rising Sun". This title includes... More

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