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Young John McGahern : Becoming a Novelist by Denis D. Sampson is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His accessible fiction won him a wide readership throughout Ireland, but the accomplishment of his craft ensured that he also became known as a writer's writer. He set his novels in places he knew intimately-Dublin, London, and the West of Ireland, where he grew up-and became known for the intimacy and honesty of his mapping of home truths of Irish life. His first novel, The Barracks, was widely hailed as a classic on pub
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- Author
- Denis D. Sampson
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191633348
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Literary Collections, Memoir, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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