The dark
McGahern, John, 1934-20062008
Book
This novel is set in rural Ireland. The themes - that McGahern has made his own - are adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both a puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father. Against a background evoked with quiet, undemonstrative mastery, McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a human situation, superficially very ordinary, but inwardly an agony of longing and despair.
Main title:
The dark / John McGahern.
Author:
McGahern, John, 1934-2006, author
Work:
Edition:
Paperback edition.
Imprint:
London : Faber, 2008.©1965
Collation:
191 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Faber, 1965.
ISBN:
9780571225675 (pbk)9780571225675 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
640311
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Melbourne Library | Fiction | MCGA | Available |