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Collected Stories

Collected Stories

by JohnMcGahern (Author)

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    Paperback 2014

    $15.16
Synopsis

This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern's short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. McGahern 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: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 01 May 2014
ISBN 10: 0571312632
ISBN 13: 9780571312634
Book Overview: These Collected Stories of John McGahern can surely only reaffirm McGahern's status as 'Ireland's greatest living novelist' (the Observer), and extend his claims into the territory of the short story.

Author Bio
John McGahern was born in Dublin in 1934 and brought up in the West of Ireland. He was a graduate of University College, Dublin. He worked as a Primary School teacher and held various academic posts at universities in Britain, Ireland and America. In the opinion of the Observer, John McGahern was 'Ireland's greatest living novelist'. He was the author of six highly acclaimed novels and four collections of short stories, and was the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship, the American-Irish Award, the Prix Etrangere Ecureuil and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Amongst Women, which 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. His last book, Memoir, was published in 2005.