John McGahern
Irish novelist and short-story writer known for spare, realist portrayals of rural Ireland, family life and authority; notable works include The Barracks, The Dark and Amongst Women.
Books
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1. Creatures Of The Earth
Creatures of the Earth collects John McGahern's short stories that probe the ordinary and the extraordinary in people's lives. Scenes range from a jilted lover waiting with would-be writers in a Dublin pub to a bitter confrontation between father and son as a marriage begins, and the fortunes and misfortunes of the Kirkwood family. McGahern revised this edition shortly before his death, editing and deleting a number of stories from the 1992 Collected Stories.