02614nam 2200577Ia 450 991046574080332120200520144314.01-283-42694-397866134269490-19-163334-8(CKB)2560000000079341(EBL)834730(OCoLC)772845041(SSID)ssj0000643247(PQKBManifestationID)12251388(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000643247(PQKBWorkID)10667763(PQKB)11267691(MiAaPQ)EBC834730(Au-PeEL)EBL834730(CaPaEBR)ebr10523351(CaONFJC)MIL342694(EXLCZ)99256000000007934120120126d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrYoung John McGahern[electronic resource] becoming a novelist /Denis SampsonOxford ;New York Oxford University Pressc20121 online resource (195 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-968234-8 0-19-964177-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; YJohn 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,Authors, IrishBiographyElectronic books.Authors, Irish823.914823/.914Sampson Denis963912MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465740803321Young John McGahern2185950UNINA