High Ground: and Other Stories - Softcover

McGahern, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 057114571X ISBN 13: 9780571145713

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1996

Synopsis

The stories in High Ground are set in ordinary places, in the streets and suburbs and dancehalls of Dublin, the small towns and fields of the midlands, the big houses of the beleaguered Anglo-Irish in the aftermath of their ascendancy, the whole changing country propelled in a generation from the nineteenth into the late twentieth century.

About this title

Book Description:

High Ground by John McGahern is a collection of short stories set in ordinary places, yet reflecting the whole of Ireland's changing within a generation, propelled from the nineteenth into the late twentieth century.

About the Author:

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 Etrangère 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 057114571X
• ISBN 13: 9780571145713
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160