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25%OFFJohn McGahern - Memoir - 9780571228119 - V9780571228119
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Memoir

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Description for Memoir Paperback. A family story, told with restraint and tenderness. This book is a son's unembarrassed tribute to his mother. His memory of walks with her through the narrow lanes to the country schools where she taught and his happiness as she named for him the wild flowers on the bank remained conscious and unconscious presences for the rest of his life. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.

John McGahern's astounding memoir of his childhood:
'A glowing masterpiece.' Hilary Mantel
'The one Irish writer everyone should read.' Colm Tóibín
As wise and compelling a book as any of his elegiac and graceful novels.' David Mitchell
'I have admired, even loved, McGahern's work since his first novel ... Memoir strips the skin off his fiction as he faces a desperate early life with great force and tenderness.' Melvyn Bragg

This is the story of John McGahern's childhood, his mother's death, his father's anger and violence, and how, through his discovery of books, his dream of becoming a writer began. At the heart of Memoir is a son's unembarrassed tribute to his mother. His memory of walks with her through the narrow lanes to the country schools where she taught and his happiness as she named for him the wild flowers on the bank remained conscious and unconscious presences for the rest of his life. A classic family story, told with exceptional restraint and tenderness, Memoir cannot fail to move all those who read it.

'Magnificent ... Stand[s] supreme in the Irish canon.' Irish Times
'Profoundly beautiful.' Daily Telegraph
'Extraordinary, spellbinding, spiritual.' Irish Independent'
'In a tremendously distinguished career, he has never written more movingly, or with a sharper eye.' Andrew Motion, Guardian

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571228119
SKU
V9780571228119
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-23

About John McGahern
John McGahern was born in Dublin in 1934 and brought up in the north western part of what is now the Republic of Ireland. He worked as a Primary School teacher, and became a full time writer in 1965. For much of his life he lived in Country Leitrim, near his childhood home. The author of six highly acclaimed novels and four collections of short stories, he 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 appeared in anthologies and has been translated into many languages. In 2005, his autobiography Memoir won the South Bank Literature Award and confirmed his reputation as one of the outstanding writers of our time. McGahern died in 2006.

Reviews for Memoir
"'Ireland's greatest living novelist.' Observer"

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