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Eleven stories set in the author's native Ireland deal with the fragile relations between the sexes, rage within families, the sudden resurfacing of intense fears, and the consequences of willfulness
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John McGahern was born in Dublin in 1934 and brought up in the West of Ireland. He is a graduate of University College, Dublin. He has worked as a Primary School teacher and has held various academic posts at universities in Britain, Ireland and America.In the opinion of the Observer, John McGahern is 'Ireland's greatest living novelist'. He is the author of six highly acclaimed novels and four collections of short stories, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship, the American-Irish Award, the Prix Etrang re Ecureuil and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Amongst Women, which has won both the GPA and the Irish Times Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a four-part BBC television series. His work has appeared in anthologies and has been translated into many languages.John McGahern lives in County Leitrim, Ireland.
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- PublisherHarper & Row
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0060130431
- ISBN 13 9780060130435
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages172
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First American edition of a collection of short stories by the celebrated Irish writer John McGahern. Copy is good condition. Some general wear to the beige cloth boards. Fairly substantial bump to rear board midway up outer edge. Interior is clean and unmarked with a tight, solid binding. Dust jacket is good, also. Some creasing and minor tearing to the top of jacket. Small chip/open tear at top of spine resulting in a small amount of loss. Small closed tear at aforementioned bump to rear board edge. Seller Inventory # 001213
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. 1st edition. New York. 1980. June 1980. Harper & Row. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0060130431. 172 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello. keywords: Literature Ireland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Regular readers of The New Yorker will be familiar with many of John McGahern's fine short stories. The eleven stories in this collection are set in McGahern's native Ireland and many of them are concerned with the fragile relationships between men and women - the difficulty of their coming together, the impossibility of commitment, the certainty of loneliness. There is Irish stubbornness, Irish raffishness, and, especially, McGahern's subtle Irish wit. In 'All Sorts of Impossible Things' an instructor born with his heart on the wrong side stubbornly insists on taking his exam despite serious illness. His friend during a sickbed visit senses 'the bloom of death' and asks to keep the instructor's lovely racing hound for him. The death releases in the friend an excitement he can scarcely contain. 'The Stoat' has chased a particular rabbit to exhaustion and finally the rabbit waits for the stoat to cut its jugular. The young man who kindly kills the rabbit goes home to find that his widowed father wants to marry again and has taken an ad in the paper. The candidates are ludicrous, but finally there's a sweet rheumatic lady who fits the bill. When she has a mild heart attack, the father deserts her and so does the son - a family of desperate rabbits. These are strong, finely wrought stories from one of the best Irish writers of this century. inventory #5421. Seller Inventory # z5421
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