The Dark, John McGaherns second novel, is set in rural Ireland. The themes that McGahern has made his own are adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both a puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father.Against a background evoked with quiet, undemonstrative mastery, McGahern explores wit...
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Format
192 pages
ISBN
9780571225675
Language
English
Features
Full color, 192 pages
Genres
Fathers and sons, Fiction, Literature, Translations into French, Irish fiction
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