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John McGahern - Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories - 9780571225668 - KSG0015926
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Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories

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Description for Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories 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
When the collection was first published in 1992, the "Sunday Times" said 'there is a vivid pleasure to be had in the reading of these stories', while for Cressida Connolly in the "Evening Standard" 'these wonderful stories are sad and true...McGahern is undoubtedly a great short story writer'. Many of the stories here are already classics: "Gold Watch", "High Ground" and "Parachutes", among others. McGahern's spare, restrained yet powerfully lyrical language draws meaning from the most ordinary situations, and turns apparently undramatic encounters into profoundly haunting events: a man visits his embittered father with his new wife; an ageing priest remembers a funeral he had attended years before; a boy steals comics from a shop to escape the rain-bound melancholy of a seaside holiday; and an ageing teacher, who has escaped a religious order, wastes his life in a rural backwater that he knows he will never leave.

Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Number of Pages
396
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571225668
SKU
KSG0015926
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About John McGahern
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. The Observer once hailed him as '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 Etrang re Ecureuil, the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and, most recently, a South Bank Award for Literature. Amongst Women was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1990 and made into a four-part BBC television series. His work has appeared in anthologies and has been translated into many languages. John McGahern died in March 2006, aged 71.

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