Books by John Mcgahern
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That They May Face the Rising Sun: Now a major motion picture
Now a major motion picture: the Booker-shortlisted author's last novel: a 'masterpiece' (Observer) by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come to Ireland from London in... See More
The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Writings
Sinclair; The Sisters; Swallows; The Rockingham Shoot; The Power of Darkness John McGahern, the leading Irish novelist of his generation, wrote a substantial number of compelling scripts for radio and television. This volume... See More
Love of the World: Essays
An enlightening collection of essays, reviews and speeches by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Tóibín). 'Wise and compelling... Elegiac and... See More
High Ground: and Other Stories
The stories in High Ground 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... See More
Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories
John McGahern is considered by many to be the most important Irish prose writer of the last fifty years. McGahern's short stories equal his finest novels, reflecting both the richness of the ordinary, and the extraordinary... See More
Amongst Women: 'One of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME McGahern's 'masterpiece: the sort of book which you can give anyone of any age and know that they will be changed by it' (Colm Tóibín) by 'one of... See More
The Pornographer
The provocative novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Tóibín). Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex... See More
The Barracks (FF Classics)
'Marvellous.' Susan Hill, The Times 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... See More
The Country Funeral: Faber Stories
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. 'My only concern', John McGahern once said, 'is that I get the sentence right and... See More
Collected Stories
This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern's short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. McGahern has long been recognized as a contemporary master of the short story; The Collected Stories... See More
The Leavetaking
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. As a result he now faces certain dismissal by... See More
Ploughshares Spring 1980 Guest-Edited by Seamus Heaney
The Spring 1980 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Seamus Heaney. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary... See More
Cuentos de Asia, Europa & América: Luvina 100 (Fondo Universidad de Guadalajara) (Spanish Edition)
La revista Luvina y la Editorial de la Universidad de Guadalajara reúnen estos cien Cuentos de Asia, Europa y América para celebrar el número 100 de Luvina y sus veinticinco años ininterrumpidos de publicación. Son... See More