The Dark
by McGahern, John
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
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Andover, Massachusetts, United States
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Synopsis
The Dark, John McGaherns second novel, is set in rural Ireland. The themes that McGahern has made his own are adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both a puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father.Against a background evoked with quiet, undemonstrative mastery, McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a human situation, superficially very ordinary, but inwardly an agony of longing and despair.
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- Bookseller
- Banjo Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006423
- Title
- The Dark
- Author
- McGahern, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- FICTION IRELAND COLLECTIBLE NOISBN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ireland Related;
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