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...
As the title suggests, this is the story of John (Sean) McGahern's life. Having said that, it is predominantly the story of his childhood, with a relatively small part of the book dedicated to his years as an adult, up to the time of his father's death.That he would end the book with his father's pa...
Admittedly, it took me quite a few pages to begin to get interested in this novel, but once I did, I found it quietly absorbing. It helped that I kept a running list of every name mentioned in the story, and took other notes. It's probably the sort of novel that provides great rewards if you read it...
1 - Exiled in England, a retired Irishman sustains himself by imagining working the farm he lost back home. Read by Sean McGinley. Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 9:15pm Sunday 13th December 2009
John McGahern's Novel "That they may face the rising sun" is the first Novel I have ever read where very little happens and yet everything that does happen is magnified by McGaheran’s’ amazing art of storytelling and the vivid images he creates of Irish rural life.Joe and Kate Rutledge have come to ...
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