McGahern, John - Creatures of the Earth / New and Selected Stor
| Schrijver: | McGahern, John |
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| Titel: | Creatures of the Earth / New and Selected Stories |
| ISBN: | 9780571237852 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | Faber & Faber |
| Bijzonderheden: | 2007, paperback, shelf/user wear, good copy |
| Prijs: | € 11,50 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 5,55 (binnen Nederland) |
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McGahern's command of the short story places him among the finest practitioners of the form, in a lineage that runs from Chekhov through Joyce and the Anglo-American masters. When the collection was first published in 1992, the Sunday Times said 'there is a vivid pleasure to be had in the reading of these stories, ' while for Cressida Connolly in the Evening Standard 'these wonderful stories are sad and true... McGahern is undoubtedly a great short story writer.' Many of the stories here are already classics: Gold Watch, High Ground and Parachutes, among others.McGahern's spare, restrained yet powerfully lyrical language draws meaning from the most ordinary situations, and turns apparently undramatic encounters into profoundly haunting events: a man visits his embittered father with his new wife; an ageing priest remembers a funeral he had attended years before; a boy steals comics from a shop to escape the rain-bound melancholy of a seaside holiday; an ageing teacher, who has escaped a religious order, wastes his life in a rural backwater that he knows he will never leave
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