Collected Short Stories - Softcover

McGahern, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571169481 ISBN 13: 9780571169481

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 1998

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Reseña del editor

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 confirms his reputation as Ireland's leading prose writer.

Biografía del autor

John McGahern was born in Dublin in 1934 and brought up in the West of Ireland. He was a graduate of University College, Dublin. He worked as a Primary School teacher and held various academic posts at universities in Britain, Ireland and America.In the opinion of the Observer, John McGahern was 'Ireland's greatest living novelist'. He was the author of six highly acclaimed novels and four collections of short stories, and was the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship, the American-Irish Award, the Prix Etrangère Ecureuil and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Amongst Women, which 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. His last book, Memoir, was published in 2005.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0571169481
• ISBN 13: 9780571169481
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416