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The Dark

4/5 ( ratings)

John McGahern's second novel, The Dark, confirmed and enhanced the reputation he gained with his first, The Barracks. The scene is set in rural Ireland and the central theme is adolescence, impelled forward by ambition and sexuality, guilty and uncontrollable, contorted and twisted by a puritanical and passionate religion and, above all, by a strange, powerful, ambiguous relationship between son and widower father. Against a background evoked with quiet, undemonstrative mastery, McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a situation superficially very ordinary but inwardly an agony of longing and despair.

Language: English

Pages: 191

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Release: June 05, 2008

ISBN: 0571225675

ISBN 13: 9780571225675

The Dark

4/5 ( ratings)

John McGahern's second novel, The Dark, confirmed and enhanced the reputation he gained with his first, The Barracks. The scene is set in rural Ireland and the central theme is adolescence, impelled forward by ambition and sexuality, guilty and uncontrollable, contorted and twisted by a puritanical and passionate religion and, above all, by a strange, powerful, ambiguous relationship between son and widower father. Against a background evoked with quiet, undemonstrative mastery, McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a situation superficially very ordinary but inwardly an agony of longing and despair.

Language: English

Pages: 191

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Release: June 05, 2008

ISBN: 0571225675

ISBN 13: 9780571225675

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