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Amongst Women

Amongst Women

John McGahern

'A masterpiece.' John Banville 'John McGahern is the Irish novelist everyone should read.' Colm Tóibín 'It is compact but not dense, spare yet rich, and brimming with tension.' Observer 'An overwhelming experience.
The Barracks

The Barracks

John McGahern

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.
Memoir

Memoir

John McGahern

'As wise and compelling a book as any of his elegiac and graceful novels.' David Mitchell This is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement, and his own discovery of literature.
Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist

Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist

Denis Sampson

This short book explores John McGahern's impassioned discovery of art as a young man and traces his imaginative formation during his twenties.
Outstaring nature's eye: the fiction of John McGahern

Outstaring nature's eye: the fiction of John McGahern

Denis Sampson

This first book-length study of the fiction of John McGahern traces his development as an artist by providing a detailed reading of each of his five novels and three collections of stories.
John McGahern and Modernism

John McGahern and Modernism

Richard Robinson

1 See Denis Sampson, '“Open to the World”: A Reading of John McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun', Irish University Review 35, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2005): 136–46, 143. 2 Gabriel Josipovici, What Ever Happened to Modernism ...
John McGahern and Modernism

John McGahern and Modernism

Richard Robinson

Also available from Bloomsbury Modernism at the Microphone, Melissa Dinsman Reframing Yeats, Charles I. Armstrong Samuel Beckett and The Bible, Iain Bailey In Memory of W.P.R. (1937–2009) John McGahern and Modernism Richard.
The Dark

The Dark

John McGahern

The Dark, John McGahern's second novel, is set in rural Ireland.
Touchstones: John McGahern's Classical Style

Touchstones: John McGahern's Classical Style

Frank Shovlin

Mcgahern, Whyte argues convincingly, was similarly inclined towards belief in an 'involuntary memory', a metaphysical process whereby images could be summoned up from somewhere outside the self. denis sampson pays most attention to ...
John McGahern and the Art of Memory

John McGahern and the Art of Memory

Dermot McCarthy

Taking Memoir as a paradigmatic work of memory, confession, and imaginative recovery, this book is a close reading of McGahern's novels that discovers his narrative poiesis in both the fiction and the memoir to be a single, continuous, and ...
That They May Face the Rising Sun

That They May Face the Rising Sun

John McGahern

That They May Face the Rising Sun was the last novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland's greatest novelists.
Ireland and Ecocriticism: Literature, History and ...

Ireland and Ecocriticism: Literature, History and ...

Eóin Flannery

McGahern, Memoir, 80. McGahern, Memoir, 96. Denis Sampson, '“Voice Itself”: The Loss and Recovery of Boyhood in Irish Memoir,' in Liam Harte ed., Modern Irish Autobiography: Self, Nation and Society (Basingstoke: Palgrave, ...
Augustus: A Novel

Augustus: A Novel

John Williams

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN MCGAHERN 'Unreasonably neglected, John William's novels Stoner and Augustus are held to the light and shown to shine' Scotsman After the brutal murder of his great-uncle Julius ...
Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories

Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories

John McGahern

They were out coursing on Sunday a last time together but they did not know it, the two friends, James Sharkey and Tom Lennon, a teacher and an agricultural instructor. The weak winter sun had thawed the fields soft enough to course the ...
The Pornographer

The Pornographer

John McGahern

Everywhere in this rich novel is the drama of opposites, but, above all, sex and death are never far from each other. 'A marvellous novel, deep, moving, rich and resonant, about love, lust, life and death.
Patrick Kavanagh, A Biography: The Acclaimed Biography of ...

Patrick Kavanagh, A Biography: The Acclaimed Biography of ...

Antoinette Quinn

Chapter 16 Based in part on conversations with Sheila Bradshaw, Anthony Cronin, the late Thérèse Cronin, the late Dr Patrick Henchy, Con Howard, Benedict Kiely, John McGahern, T. P. McKenna, Priscilla MacNamara, Deirdre Manifold (née ...
List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, with the ...

List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, with the ...

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics

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Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command

Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command

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The American Shropshire Sheep Record

The American Shropshire Sheep Record

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An Alphabetical List of the Poll, taken before John ...

An Alphabetical List of the Poll, taken before John ...

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Official Register of the United States

Official Register of the United States

United States Civil Service Commission

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Biennial Report of the Adjutant General: (1861-1866)

Biennial Report of the Adjutant General: (1861-1866)

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Journal

Journal

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Says he served subpoenas on Samuel Lord, James Ellis, John J. Libert, John Jones, John Ruth, John Kirk, Lukens Kirk, Cornelius Tyson, M. Meglathery, John Williams, John Funk and Charles Coogler. Question by Mr. Bell.—What are the ...
A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex: ...

A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex: ...

James Dallaway

John Dolite. John Frampton. Nicholas Pole. John Hilley. Richard Haynes. John Windeby. Humphrey Hebster. Nicholas Pole. John Balman. William Barnard. John Hilley. John Balman. John Fust. Robert Seman. John Hilley. Humphrey Hebster.
Municipal Register, City of Nashua

Municipal Register, City of Nashua

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The Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago

The Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago

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The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: a New and Complete ...

The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: a New and Complete ...

John Foxe

Cowper, Humphrey Skinner, John Sneudnam, Richard Philips, John Celos: these nine persons were presented, for that ... Thomas Bele, John Sturgeon, John Wilshire, Thomas Symon, Ralph Clervis and his wife, James Banaster, Nicholas ...
Revised Zug/Zuck/Zouck/Zook genealogy

Revised Zug/Zuck/Zouck/Zook genealogy

Harry D. Zook

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