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The Dark Soft cover - 2002
by McGahern, John
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Details
- Title The Dark
- Author McGahern, John
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later Printing
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Publication date 2002
- Bookseller's Inventory # 012887
- ISBN 9780140277951 / 0140277951
- Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.22 x 0.49 in (19.81 x 13.26 x 1.24 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Fathers and sons
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001054859
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 1
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Summary
The Dark, widely acclaimed, yet infamously banned, is John McGahern’s sensitive, perceptive, and beautifully written portrayal of a young man’s coming-of-age in rural Ireland. Imaginative and introverted, the boy is successful in school, but bitterly confused by the guilt-inducing questions he endures from the priests who should be his venerated guides. His relationship with his bullying, bigoted, widowed father is similarly conflicted — touched with both deep love and carefully suppressed hatred. When he must leave home to further his education, their relationship is drawn to an emotional climax that teaches both father and son some of the most intricate truths about manhood.
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