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Love of the World: Essays by John McGahern
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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 PORNOGRAPHER by MCGAHERN JOHN
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fall in love with him. But his insensitivity to this love is in d ...Show more
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"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 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 ...Show more
The Barracks by John McGahern
$19.99 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
The Country Funeral: Faber Stories by John McGahern
$7.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
"My only concern," John McGahern once said, "is that I get the sentence right and describe my world clearly and deeply." 'The Country Funeral' witnesses three brothers, John, Philly and Fonsie Ryan, as they travel west from Dublin to Gloria Bog - the heart of the territory where so many of McGahern's st ...Show more
The Pornographer by John McGahern
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The narrator, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world in his book, while he bungles his own affair with an older woman who falls in love with him. His insensitivity to this love is in contrast to the tenderness of his attempts to make his aunt's slow death in hospital tolerable.