A huge best-seller in Ireland, it has been nominated for numerous literary prizes and was. McGahern ( The Dark The Pornographer ) has crafted a wise and tender novel whose brooding hero seems emblematic of an Ireland that drives away its sons and daughters. Amongst Women is John McGahern’s eighth work of fiction, and is likely to become his best-known work. Moran also claims a renegade son in London who is ``turning himself into a sort of Englishman,'' and another son driven away by Moran's threats of beatings. Moran's second wife, Rose, much younger than he, displays saintly patience in her attempts to heal this splintering family. McGahern was the son of a policeman who had once been a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Yearning for approval but fearing his flare-ups, they periodically beat a path back to the farmhouse from London and Dublin, then take flight again, both proud and dependent. Moran, a partisan leader during the Irish War of Independence, has never readjusted to normal life he is so protective of his independence that he stays. John McGahern, (born November 12, 1934, Dublin, Irelanddied March 30, 2006, Dublin), Irish novelist and short-story writer known for his depictions of Irish men and women constricted and damaged by the conventions of their native land. Gruff, blustering Michael Moran, former guerrilla hero in the Irish War of Independence, is a man ``in permanent opposition.'' Now a farmer, he vents his compulsion to dominate, his cold fury and sense of betrayal on his three teenage daughters.

His work has appeared in anthologies and has been translated into. Amongst Women by John McGahern SIGNED Near fine.First edition 4th Impression. Amongst Women, which won both the GPA and the Irish Times Award, was shortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize and made into a four-part BBC television series.

A lyric lament for Ireland, McGahern's lovingly observed family drama is dominated by an almost pathetic paterfamilias. He was the author of six highly acclaimed novels and four collections of short stories.

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