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The Barracks

John McGahern

Hardcover. Out of Print. First US edition, very rare. Keywords: Irish Literature, fiction, comedy, tragedy

Condition: Used, Very Good
Publisher: Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1964
Edition: [1st American ed.]
SKU: KHS0081651

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€ 380.00

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The Dark

John McGahern

Hardcover. First edition, worn copy, dustwrapper slighyl worn

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Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1965
SKU: KTK0094194

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€ 245.00

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Amongst Women

paperback. Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 158.

Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2008
Condition: New
SKU: V9780571225644
ISBN: 9780571225644

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€ 13.99
€ 10.59

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Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories

John McGahern

Hardback. First new hardback edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper and with plastic book wrap. DW faded and showing light shelf wear. Page edges browned, otherwise a fine copy

Condition: Used, Very Good
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2006
SKU: KSG0015926
ISBN: 9780571225668

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€ 45.00

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Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories

John McGahern

Paperback. A collection of short stories. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 338.

Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber London
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2007
Condition: New
SKU: V9780571237852
ISBN: 9780571237852

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€ 17.99
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High Ground: and Other Stories

John McGahern

Paperback. Includes stories that are set in ordinary places, in the streets and suburbs and dancehalls of Dublin, the small towns and fields of the midlands, the big houses of the beleaguered Anglo-Irish in the aftermath of their ascendancy, and the whole changing country propelled in a generation from the nineteenth into the late twentieth century. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 135.

Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Number of pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2009
Condition: New
SKU: V9780571225699
ISBN: 9780571225699

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Love of the World

John McGahern

John McGahern did not spread himself thinly as a writer. Nearly all of his creative energy went into what was central for him: the great novels and stories that are part of the canon of Irish and world literature. Of interest to those who love his work, this book brings together McGahern's surviving essays, reviews and speeches. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 41. Weight in Grams: 770. Nice copy in clean dustwrapper. First edition.

Condition: Used, Very Good
Edition: Main
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2009
SKU: KEX0303037
ISBN: 9780571245116

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€ 45.00

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Memoir

John McGahern

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.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Condition: New
Edition: Main
SKU: V9780571228119
ISBN: 9780571228119

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€ 14.99
€ 11.36

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The Pornographer

John McGahern

Paperback. Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fall in love with him. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Condition: New
SKU: V9780571225712
ISBN: 9780571225712

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€ 13.99
€ 10.51

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The Leavetaking

John McGahern

Hardcover. Stated first edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper and mylar. DW showing a little age and shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a fine copy

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1975
Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited London
Edition: First edition
Condition: Used, Very Good
SKU: KSG0031363
ISBN: 9780571106219