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Books by John Mcgahern
  | | Amongst Women by John Mcgahern Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1991 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-009255-4, ISBN: 0-14-009255-2 "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." |
 | | The Country Funeral (Faber Stories) by John Mcgahern Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2019 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-35184-8, ISBN: 0-571-35184-0 ""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 stories take place – to attend the funeral of their uncle. Depicting the customs and rituals of the day, McGahern exquisitely traces how th ..." |
 | | By the Lake(1st Edition) by John Mcgahern Paperback, 335 Pages, Published 2003 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-74402-3, ISBN: 0-679-74402-9 "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, ha ..." |
 | | All Will Be Well(Reprint) A Memoir by John Mcgahern Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-7986-5, ISBN: 1-4000-7986-1 "All Will Be Well From award-winning author John McGahern, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer. McGahern describes his early years as one of seven children growing up in rural County Leitrim, a childhood was marked by his father's violent nature and the early death of his beloved mother. Tracing the memories of home through both people and place, McGahern details family life and t ..." |
 | | Memoir by John Mcgahern Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Faber And Faber Import ISBN-13: 978-0-571-22811-9, ISBN: 0-571-22811-9 "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 to the country schools where she taught and his happiness as she named for him the wild flowers on the bank remained conscious and unco ..." |
 | | The Barracks by John Mcgahern Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2003 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-200425-8, ISBN: 0-14-200425-1 " One of the preeminent Irish writers of our time, John McGahern has captivated readers with such poignant and heart-wrenching novels as Amongst Women and The Dark. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, McGahern’s first novel, The Barracks, is one of haunting power. Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom—and loneliness—marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; ..." |
 | | Stoner(Updated) (New York Review Books Classics) by John Williams, John Mcgahern Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-199-8, ISBN: 1-59017-199-3 "Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has k ..." |
 | | Faber Drama Ser. The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Writings by John Mcgahern Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2018 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33663-0, ISBN: 0-571-33663-9 "This welcome volume brings together a selection powerful dramatic writings by one of Ireland's greatest writers." |
 | | Love of the World Essays - Ex Library by John Mcgahern Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 2009 by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-24511-6, ISBN: 0-571-24511-0 "This book brings together all of McGahern's surviving essays, reviews and speeches. In them his canon of great writers - Tolstoy, Chekhov, James, Proust and Joyce - is cited many times, with deep and subtle appreciation." |
 | | The Pornographer by John Mcgahern Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2006 by Penguin Books Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-14-027796-8, ISBN: 0-14-027796-X "Reissued to tie in with the publication of John McGahern’s new memoir, All Will Be Well One of the preeminent writers of our time, John McGahern has captivated readers with such poignant and heart-wrenching novels as Amongst Women and The Dark. In The Pornographer, Michael creates an ideal world of sex as a writer of pornographic fiction, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fa ..." |
 | | Creatures of the earth(Updated) new and selected stories by John Mcgahern Hardcover, 366 Pages, Published 2006 by Faber And Faber Import ISBN-13: 978-0-571-22566-8, ISBN: 0-571-22566-7 "McGahern's spare, restrained yet powerfully lyrical language draws meaning from the most ordinary situations, and turns apparently undramatic encounters into profoundly haunting events." |
 | | The Leavetaking by John Mcgahern Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2006 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-028057-9, ISBN: 0-14-028057-X " Widely considered one of the greatest Irish writers by readers and critics alike, John McGahern has been called "arguably the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett" (The Guardian) whose "spare but luminous prose" (Chicago Tribune) is frequently compared to that of James Joyce. In The Leavetaking, McGahern presents a crucial, cathartic day in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who, along with his new wife, retur ..." |
 | | All Will Be Well(1st Edition) A Memoir by John Mcgahern Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2006 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-4496-2, ISBN: 1-4000-4496-0 "In his award-winning novels and stories, John McGahern (one of “the greatest Irish writers”—The New York Times Book Review) explores the ordinary lives of men and women to reveal the intricate workings of the human heart and mind. Now, in All Will Be Well, he turns to his own life, telling the story of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer.McGahern grew up the eldest of seven children in Count ..." |
 | | The Dark(1st Edition) by John Mcgahern Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2002 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-027795-1, ISBN: 0-14-027795-1 "The Dark, widely acclaimed, yet infamously banned, is John McGahern’s sensitive, perceptive, and beautifully written portrayal of a young man’s coming-of-age in rural Ireland. Imaginative and introverted, the boy is successful in school, but bitterly confused by the guilt-inducing questions he endures from the priests who should be his venerated guides. His relationship with his bullying, bigoted, widowed father is similarly conflicted ..." |
 | | That They May Face the Rising Sun(1st Edition) by John Mcgahern Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2002 by Faber & Faber Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-571-21221-7, ISBN: 0-571-21221-2 "Irish writer John McGahern's first new novel in 12 years, That They May Face the Rising Sun, is a work of delicately forged beauty, the nearest he has yet come to writing of happiness. The plot remains defiantly not the thing for McGahern, with little of consequence happening beyond life's natural syncopations, yet the nuances of language and relationship soar as gracefully as the abundant wildfowl that crowd the book's pages. News is t ..." |
 | | High Ground and Other Stories by Mc Gahern John, John Mcgahern Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2000 by Faber Faber Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-571-14571-3, ISBN: 0-571-14571-X "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 their ascendancy, the ..." |
 | | Pornographer, The(Updated) by John Mcgahern Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 1998 by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-16161-4, ISBN: 0-571-16161-8 |
 | | Amongst Women(1st Edition) by John Mcgahern, John Masters Hardcover, 182 Pages, Published 1990 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-14284-2, ISBN: 0-571-14284-2 "Moran is an old Republican, a veteran of the Irish Civil War. He is dominated by his daughters who revive the custom of celebrating Monaghan Day. It is through their lives that we discover the story of his life. This book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1990. The author also wrote "The Dark"." |
 | | That they may face the rising sun(Updated) Amongst women ; The pornographer ; The dark ; The barracks by John Mcgahern Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1983 by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-11991-2, ISBN: 0-571-11991-3 |
 | | The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Writings by John Mcgahern 208 Pages, Published 2018 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33664-7, ISBN: 0-571-33664-7 "Peter and Oliver enter. Now, Oliver, there's no use beating round the bush. We'll have to get this straight once and for all. OLIVER Well, you know, whatever is right – you know. All I want done is whatever is right. Eileen! He takes his cap off to ..." |
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