Barracks - Softcover

McGahern, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571119905 ISBN 13: 9780571119905

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

RO60079020. THE BARRACKS. 1983. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos plié, Intérieur acceptable. 232 pages. Annotations au crayon dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

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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, threatened by illness, seems to be losing the last vestiges of its purpose. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, John McGahern's first novel is one of haunting power. 'The details are evoked with a scrupulous yet enhancing accuracy that reminds one of the young Joyce. He is astonishingly successful in penetrating the mind of a mature woman confronted with pain and death. Mr McGahern is the real thing.' -Spectator

Biografía del autor

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.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0571119905
• ISBN 13: 9780571119905
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240