John McGahern

Mar 27, 2025 | metacritic.com | Éamon Little |John McGahern |Catherine Byrne

Overall, That They May Face the Rising Sun is solid and worth your time. The acting is top-notch, and the story is compelling, but its verisimilitude is truly off the charts. This is the closest you can get to a time machine to take you to a bygone time and place that is little celebrated but worth remembering. Read More

Jan 11, 2025 | readingmattersblog.com | John McGahern

Fiction – paperback; Faber and Faber; 260 pages; 2009. Most longtime followers of this blog will know that John McGahern (1934-2006) is my favourite writer. I discovered him not long after he died, promptly went out and bought all his novels (just six; he wasn’t prolific) and read them all bar one.

Jul 8, 2024 | bibliosurf.com | John McGahern

Célibataire endurci et poète sans le sou, le narrateur écrit des textes pornographiques en guise de gagne-pain, plutôt que de renoncer à sa vie de liberté à Dublin. Ses fréquentes visites à l’hôpital, où il apporte à sa tante gravement malade des bouteilles de cognac afin de soulager sa douleur, esquissent le portrait d’un homme d’une grande prévenance. Un soir, dans un dancing, il rencontre une femme avec qui il entame une liaison sans lendemain.

Jun 6, 2024 | theadvertiser.ie | John McGahern

By John McGahernJoe and Kate Ruttledge have come to 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 the action, the rituals of work, religious observances and play. We are introduced, with deceptive simplicity, to a complete representation of existence – an enclosed world has been transformed into an Everywhere.