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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 stories are displayed in all their beauty and
bleakness. Two new stories included here are perhaps the most
heart-rending.' -- Sunday Times
'McGahern's work is of a standard that leaves the majority of contemporary writing flopping pointlessly around ... beautifully entertaining.' -- Brian Hennigan, Herald
'Precision timing, black humour and a remorseless grasp of human nature were McGarhern's strengths. They served him well.'
-- Irish Times
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Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories distils John McGahern's finest stories - no small claim given his position among the finest practioners of the form, in a lineage that runs from Chekhov through Joyce and the Anglo-American masters.
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- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0571225667
- ISBN 13 9780571225668
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages416
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