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Article: John McGahern, Memoir.(Book Review)
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- Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
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- September 22, 2005
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John McGahern, Memoir. London: Faber and Faber, 2005. 272 pages. GBP 16.99 (hardback).
In his long-awaited new Memoir, John McGahern revisits the places that are so familiar to the readers of his novels and short stories. Any reader of McGahern's fiction will have been struck by the constant recurrence of names, places, incidents, images, and even phrases throughout his oeuvre. Some not-so-astute critics have subsequently over the years levelled the charge that McGahern has been repeating himself since the beginning and has made a career out of telling the same story over-and-over-again in six different novels and nearly forty-odd short stories; and that, ...
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Article: Obituary: John McGahern
The Scotsman;
April 4, 2006 ;
700+ words
...JOHN McGAHERN Short story writer, novelist and playwright Born: 12 November, 1934 ... Dublin. Died: 30 March, 2006, in Dublin, aged 71. WITH the death of John McGahern from cancer, Ireland has lost its finest chronicler of place. The repressed ...
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