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Amongst Women by John McGahern
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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.
Amongst Women by McGahern, John
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla 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
Amongst Women: Faber Modern Classics by John McGahern
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla 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
Creatures of the Earth by John McGahern
$35.00 NZD
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
Getting Through by John McGahern
$29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This title includes stories by one of the outstanding Irish writers of today, 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".
John McGahern - Memoir by John McGahern
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Memoir by John McGahern
$29.99 NZD
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
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Joel and Kate Ruttledge, have come to rural 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 action, the rituals of work, religious observances and play. By th ...Show more
The Barracks by McGahern, John
$17.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Fiction Classics
After years of freedom - and loneliness - Elizabeth marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, this was McGahern's first novel.
The Country Funeral: Faber Stories by John McGahern
$10.00 NZD
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
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