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Creatures of the Earth

- New and Selected Stories
Af: John McGahern Engelsk Paperback

Creatures of the Earth

- New and Selected Stories
Af: John McGahern Engelsk Paperback
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McGahern''s command of the short story places him among the finest practitioners of the form, in a lineage that runs from Chekhov through Joyce and the Anglo-American masters. When the collection was first published in 1992, the Sunday Times said ''there is a vivid pleasure to be had in the reading of these stories,'' while for Cressida Connolly in the Evening Standard ''these wonderful stories are sad and true . . . McGahern is undoubtedly a great short story writer.'' Many of the stories here are already classics: ''Gold Watch'', ''High Ground'' and ''Parachutes'', among others. McGahern''s spare, restrained yet powerfully lyrical language draws meaning from the most ordinary situations, and turns apparently undramatic encounters into profoundly haunting events: a man visits his embittered father with his new wife; an ageing priest remembers a funeral he had attended years before; a boy steals comics from a shop to escape the rain-bound melancholy of a seaside holiday; an ageing teacher, who has escaped a religious order, wastes his life in a rural backwater that he knows he will never leave.
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McGahern''s command of the short story places him among the finest practitioners of the form, in a lineage that runs from Chekhov through Joyce and the Anglo-American masters. When the collection was first published in 1992, the Sunday Times said ''there is a vivid pleasure to be had in the reading of these stories,'' while for Cressida Connolly in the Evening Standard ''these wonderful stories are sad and true . . . McGahern is undoubtedly a great short story writer.'' Many of the stories here are already classics: ''Gold Watch'', ''High Ground'' and ''Parachutes'', among others. McGahern''s spare, restrained yet powerfully lyrical language draws meaning from the most ordinary situations, and turns apparently undramatic encounters into profoundly haunting events: a man visits his embittered father with his new wife; an ageing priest remembers a funeral he had attended years before; a boy steals comics from a shop to escape the rain-bound melancholy of a seaside holiday; an ageing teacher, who has escaped a religious order, wastes his life in a rural backwater that he knows he will never leave.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 416
ISBN-13: 9780571237852
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0571237851
Kategori: Noveller
Udg. Dato: 5 jul 2007
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 128mm
Højde: 196mm
Forlag: Faber & Faber
Oplagsdato: 5 jul 2007
Forfatter(e): John McGahern
Forfatter(e) John McGahern

Kategori Noveller

ISBN-13 9780571237852

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 416

Udgave

Længde 27mm

Bredde 128mm

Højde 196mm

Udg. Dato 5 jul 2007

Oplagsdato 5 jul 2007

Forlag Faber & Faber

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