John McGahern's second novel, The Dark, confirmed and enhanced the reputation he gained with his first, The Barracks. The scene is set in rural Ireland and the central theme is adolescence, impelled forward by ambition and sexuality, guilty and uncontrollable, contorted and twisted by a puritanical and passionate religion and, above all, by a strange, powerful, ambiguous relationship between son and widower father. Against a background evoked with quiet, undemonstrative mastery, McGahern explores with precision and ...
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John McGahern's second novel, The Dark, confirmed and enhanced the reputation he gained with his first, The Barracks. The scene is set in rural Ireland and the central theme is adolescence, impelled forward by ambition and sexuality, guilty and uncontrollable, contorted and twisted by a puritanical and passionate religion and, above all, by a strange, powerful, ambiguous relationship between son and widower father. Against a background evoked with quiet, undemonstrative mastery, McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a situation superficially very ordinary but inwardly an agony of longing and despair.
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Add this copy of The Dark to cart. $18.00, very good condition, Sold by Samuel S Lin rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Etobicoke, ON, CANADA, published 1983 by Faber & Faber Limited.
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Very Good. 1983. paperback. Good clean copy. Covers showing light shelf wear and sunned to spine. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
