{"title":"John McGahern","description":"Anna Teekell is associate professor of English at Christopher Newport University. Ellen Scheible is professor of English and director of the honors program at Bridgewater State University.","products":[{"product_id":"the-dark-a-critical-edition-paperback","title":"The Dark: A Critical Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eBringing John McGahern's 1965 masterpiece back into print in the United States after years of inaccessibility, this new sixtieth-anniversary critical edition includes an introduction aimed at first-time readers, explanatory footnotes, McGahern's own glossary, and four scholarly essays aimed at guiding readers through the novel's famously controversial history. While the text was initially banned in Ireland for obscenity, this edition demonstrates that McGahern's novel of adolescence is not obscene, but revelatory, exposing the corruption underlying authority structures in mid-century Ireland--from the family to the church, to the government's willingness to ignore national and communal trauma. \u003ci\u003eThe Dark\u003c\/i\u003e follows a promising young boy's struggles to break free from the economic and social forces trapping him in a lifestyle that is both familiar and suffocating. At the heart of the novel is the boy's complex and stormy relationship with his abusive, widowed father, who is left to raise a family with little outside aid. \u003ci\u003eThe Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of alarming brutality, surprising tenderness, and poetic lyricism; a reflection of Irish society that maintains historical significance as contemporary Ireland continues to build its national identity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103238951135,"sku":"9780815638612","price":56.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/cO4p42WEBg9780815638612.webp?v=1781090552"},{"product_id":"the-collected-stories-of-john-mcgahern-paperback","title":"The Collected Stories of John McGahern - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese 34 funny, tragic, bracing, and acerbic stories represent the complete short fiction of one of Ireland's finest living writers. On struggling farms, in Dublin's rain-drenched streets, or in parched exile in Franco's Spain, McGahern's characters wage a confused but touching war against the facts of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104439111903,"sku":"9780679744016","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/o__egx5myw9780679744016.webp?v=1781108313"},{"product_id":"by-the-lake-ala-notable-books-for-adults-paperback","title":"By the Lake: ALA Notable Books for Adults - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces its natural rhythms and the inner lives of its people. Here are the Ruttledges, who have forsaken the glitter of London to raise sheep and cattle, gentle Jamesie Murphy, whose appetite for gossip both charms and intimidates his neighbors, handsome John Quinn, perennially on the look-out for a new wife, and the town's richest man, a gruff, self-made magnate known as \"the Shah.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing his characters through the course of a year, through lambing and haying seasons, market days and family visits, McGahern lays bare their passions and regrets, their uneasy relationship with the modern world, their ancient intimacy with death.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces its natural rhythms and the inner lives of its people. Here are the Ruttledges, who have forsaken the glitter of London to raise sheep and cattle, gentle Jamesie Murphy, whose appetite for gossip both charms and intimidates his neighbors, handsome John Quinn, perennially on the look-out for a new wife, and the town's richest man, a gruff, self-made magnate known as \"the Shah.\" \u003cbr\u003eFollowing his characters through the course of a year, through lambing and haying seasons, market days and family visits, McGahern lays bare their passions and regrets, their uneasy relationship with the modern world, their ancient intimacy with death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104439734495,"sku":"9780679744023","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Q5tmbWYYvQ9780679744023.webp?v=1781108315"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/john-mcgahern.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}