Getting Through - Softcover

McGahern, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571149979 ISBN 13: 9780571149971

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 1988

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1990 reprint, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

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Reseña del editor:

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. 'His terse narrative seems free and full. He has the Irish gift of being able to move fluently and unselfconsciously between a simple and a heightened style.' Times Literary Supplement

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. His work has appeared in anthologies and has been translated into many languages.John McGahern lives in County Leitrim, Ireland.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0571149979
• ISBN 13: 9780571149971
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160