Amongst Women: Faber Modern Classics (Paperback)

John McGahern (author)

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Paperback 192 Pages
Published: 04/02/2016

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Synopsis

Profound, lucid and lyrical, McGahern’s masterpiece explores love, fear of loneliness and the complex psychology of sacrifice. Set on a small Irish farm, Amongst Women follows the life of a widowed father of five children, wavering between paternal love and tyranny. A stunningly nuanced meditation on the inability to let go.

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Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm where he raises his two sons and three daughters.

Adrift from the structure and security of the military, he keeps control by binding his family close to him. But as his children grow older and seek independence, and as the passing years bring with them bewildering change, Moran struggles to find a balance between love and tyranny.

Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571315543
Number of pages: 192
Weight: 175 g
Dimensions: 205 x 140 x 13 mm
Edition: Main - Faber Modern Classics

MEDIA REVIEWS

'A book that can be read in two hours, but will linger in the mind for decades.' - The Sunday Telegraph

'One of the greatest writers of our era.' - Hilary Mantel

'John McGahern is the Irish novelist everyone should read.' - Colm Toibin

'A masterpiece.' - John Banville

'McGahern brings us that tonic gift of the best fiction, the sense of truth - the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own.' - John Updike