McGahern’s second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality.

Bringing 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…

Challenging assumptions about John McGahern as an old-fashioned realist, this study confirms him as a writer dramatically engaged with the impact of progress on tradition –

This volume brings together contributions from a variety of disciplines to address the writer’s legacy and literary achievements. Essays on previously unexplored topics and reflective pieces on McGahern as a…

McGahern’s spare, restrained yet powerfully lyrical language draws meaning from the most ordinary situations, and turns apparently undramatic encounters into profoundly haunting events

Denis Sampson explores John McGahern’s discovery of art as a young man and traces the development of his signature vision and style. Sampson considers McGahern’s early efforts as an apprentice…

A study of contemporary Anglo-Irish literature focusing on how it interacts with the society that gives it context and impacts what is to come. Considers the literature as post-colonial, and…