Memoir
1st American ed.
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Word Count
72,250 words, Guess
Page Count
289 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3426561M
- ISBN-101400044960
- OCLC Control Number60589213
- OCLC Control Numberallwillbewellmem0000mcga
- Library of Congress Control Number2005050417
and 2 more
- LibraryThing1002965
- Goodreads430365
Classifications
- DDC823/.914
- LCCPR6063.A2176 Z47 2006
Description
As wise and compelling a book as any of his elegiac and graceful novels. David MitchellThis is the story of John McGaherns childhood; of his mothers death, his fathers anger and bafflement, and his own discovery of literature.Long before Frank McCourt made an entire industry out of twinkly eyed accounts of the poverty and institutionalised brutality of mid-twentieth-century rural Ireland, John McGahern, Irelands greatest living novelist, had already shone wise and unsparing light on this same world Memoir is the full, unadorned story of his childhood and adolescence in Leitrim His finest book yet. Stephanie Merritt, ObserverIn a tremendously distinguished career, he has never written more movingly, or with a sharper eye. Andrew Motion, GuardianI have admired, even loved, John McGaherns work since his first novel Memoir strips the skin off his fiction as he faces a desperate early life with great force and tenderness. Melvyn Bragg
Description
The author offers a revealing and poignant memoir of growing up in Ireland with a violent father and selfless mother as the eldest of seven children, the early death of his mother and the strong influence of his mother's love on his life, his career as a writer, and the impact of the landscape of his youth on both his life and work.
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