John McGahern
Birth date: November 12, 1934
Died: March 30, 2006
John McGahern's Books
The Leavetaking by John McGahern was written as a love story, its two parts deliberately different in style and while I enjoyed the first part of the story the second part just didn't work for me and I felt it was out of sync with the usual style of McGahern Novels.The book tells the story of a day...
--The Beginning of an Idea--A Slip-up--All Sorts of Impossible Things--Faith, Hope and Charity--The Stoat--Doorways--The Wine Breath--Along the Edges--Swallows--Sierra Leone
Got it for Christmas and it was okay, I wasn't as taken with it as a lot of people I know were.
Het levensverhaal van een eenzelvige boerenzoon die na een keurig burgerlijk (maar ook eenzaam) leven op de laatste bladzijde ook zijn laatste adem uitblaast.Mooi geschreven en heerlijk om te lezen.De sociale eenzaamheid, het onbegrip, falende relaties. Toch ook persoonlijke overwinningen en liefde ...
Well, it took a while to get into this book. Like, half the book to get into it. Overuse of pronouns and the lack of a clear central plot made it difficult to figure out who was who and what I should be focusing on. But once I got comfortable with the characters and setting, it was easier to feel im...
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