Products specifications
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Author
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John McGahern |
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Pub Date
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05/06/2008 |
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Binding
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Paperback / softback |
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Pages
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192 |
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Country
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United Kingdom |
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Dewey
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823.914 |
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GBPPrice
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8.99 |
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Availability
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Available |
Set in rural Ireland, John McGahern's second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both 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.
