The Dark

Name: The Dark
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: John McGahern
ISBN: 9780571119912

John McGahern

18/09/1983
Faber and Faber

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Dark par John McGahern

Résumé

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.