That They May Face The Rising Sun
by:
John McGahern (author)
Joe and Kate Ruttledge, have come to rural Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through action, the rituals of work, religious observances and play....
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Joe and Kate Ruttledge, have come to rural Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through action, the rituals of work, religious observances and play. By the novel's close we feel that we have been introduced, with deceptive simplicity, to a complete representation of existence - an enclosed world has been transformed into an Everywhere.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571212217 (0571212212)
Publish date: October 26th 2002
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Got it for Christmas and it was okay, I wasn't as taken with it as a lot of people I know were.
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...
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...
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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