Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and lonelines - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to break free from the servile security of the police force; and her own life, threatened by illness, seems to be losing the last vestiges of its purpose. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, John McGahern's first novel is one of haunting power.
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The Barracks by John McGahern is a novel of haunting power, moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy.
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The Barracks by John McGahern in a beautiful new paperback Faber Firsts edition to commemorate Faber's 80th Anniversary.
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