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With this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces its natural rhythms and the inner lives of its people. Here are the Ruttledges, who have forsaken the glitter of London to raise sheep and cattle, gentle Jamesie Murphy, whose appetite for gossip both charms and intimidates his neighbors, handsome John Quinn, perennially on the look-out for a new wife, and the town’s richest man, a gruff, self-made magnate known as “the Shah.”“The most perfect novel I’ve read in years.” —Malcolm Jones, Newsweek “Ireland’s finest living fiction writer.... A gripping, poignant book.”—Chicago Tribune “This is the Irish temper, free of all the caricatures.... Writing this true, this unaffected—no wonder we celebrate the Irish.”—The Dallas Morning News “Wonderful.... No body of water has been so lovingly revered since Henry David Thoreau went to the woods.”—The Christian Science Monitor “Has the appeal of a letter from home.... Wonderfully engaging.”—Newsday “McGahern’s characters step in time with the gentle rhythms of the land, with the flowering of th

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Author

McGahern, John, 1934-2006. aut

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679419143

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, World Fiction

Rating

3.95 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14