The award-winning author of By the Lake offers a revealing and poignant memoir of growing up in Ireland with a violent father and selfless mother as the eldest of seven children, the early death of his mother and the strong influence of his mother's love on his life, his career as a writer, and the impact of the landscape of his youth on both his life and work. 30,000 first printing.
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"Powerful.... If you haven't read McGahern, this is a good place to start, at the heart of a lyric grief and an embittering passion."
--The New York Times Book Review
John McGahern is the author of six highly acclaimed novels and four collections of short stories, and has been the recipient of many awards and honors, including an award from the Society of Authors, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Prix Ecureuil de Littérature Étrangère and the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Amongst Women, which won both the GPA Book Award and the Irish Times Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in County Leitrim, Ireland.
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