Michael Moran is an old Irish Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independence. Moran is till fighting with his family, his friends, and even himself in this haunting testimony to the enduring qualities of the human spirit."
Michael Moran is an old Irish Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independenc...
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 streets, or in parched exile in Franco's Spain, McGahern's characters wage a confused but touching war against the facts of life.
These 34 funny, tragic, bracing, and acerbic stories represent the complete short fiction of one of Ireland's finest living writers. On struggling far...
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 glitter of London to raise sheep and cattle, gentle Jamesie Murphy, whose appetite for gossip both charms and intimidates his neighbors, handsome John Quinn, perennially on the look-out for a new wife, and the town s richest man, a gruff, self-made magnate known as the Shah. Following his...
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 r...
Elizabeth Reegan, 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 to break free from the servile security of the police force; and her own life, thr
Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; h...
Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his 2 stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who falls in love with him.
Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his 2 stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he...
A young Catholic schoolteacher has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical in London where he married a divorcee - as a result he now faces dismissal by the school authorities. Moving from the earliest memories of the couple, the novel recreates their breaking of the shackles of guilt into the acceptance of a fulfilling love.
A young Catholic schoolteacher has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical in London where he married a divorcee - as a result he now faces dism...