Young John McGahern [[electronic resource] ] : becoming a novelist / / Denis Sampson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465740803321
• Autore: Sampson Denis
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-283-42694-3; 9786613426949; 0-19-163334-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (195 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.914; 823/.914
• Soggetti: Authors, Irish; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; 1. Pleasure and Knowledge; 2. The Vocation; 3. 'The years of training in the secret Dublin years'; 4. 'Writing all the time'; 5. 'Art is solitary man'; 6. The Character of the Local Artist; 7. 'The End or the Beginning of Love'; 8. 'The abiding life'; 9. Writing The Barracks; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y
• Sommario/riassunto: John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His accessible fiction won him a wide readership throughout Ireland, but the accomplishment of his craft ensured that he also became known as a writer's writer. He set his novels in places he knew intimately-Dublin, London, and the West of Ireland, where he grew up-and became known for the intimacy and honesty of his mapping of home truths of Irish life. His first novel, The Barracks, was widelyhailed as a classic on publication in 1963, and his later work, including Amongst Women and That They May Face the Rising Sun,