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Collected Short Stories

Collected Short Stories

by JohnMcGahern (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

    $3.37
Synopsis

This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern's short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. Mc Gahern has long been recognized as a contemporary master of the short story; The Collected Stories confirms his reputation as Ireland's leading prose writer.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 416
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 19 Oct 1998
ISBN 10: 0571169481
ISBN 13: 9780571169481

Author Bio
John McGahern was born in Dublin in 1934 and brought up in the West of Ireland. He is a graduate of University College, Dublin. He has worked as a Primary School teacher and has held various academic posts at universities in Britain, Ireland and America.In the opinion of the Observer, John McGahern is 'Ireland's greatest living novelist'. He is the author of six highly acclaimed novels and four collections of short stories, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship, the American-Irish Award, the Prix Etrang re Ecureuil and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Amongst Women, which has won both the GPA and the Irish Times Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a four-part BBC television series. His work has appeared in anthologies and has been translated into many languages.John McGahern lives in County Leitrim, Ireland.