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The Letters of John McGahern
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By: Frank Shovlin
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: September 2021
Pages: 880
Categories: Biography
Language: English
Available as: Hardback
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ISBN-13: 9780571326662
ISBN: 0571326668

John McGahern is consistently hailed as one of the finest Irish writers since James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.This volume collects some of the witty, profound and unfailingly brilliant letters that he exchanged with family, friends and literary luminaries - such as Seamus Heaney, Colm Tóibín and Paul Muldoon - over the course of a well-travelled life. It is one of the major contributions to the study of Irish and British literature of the past thirty years, acting not just as a crucial insight into the life and works of a much-revered writer - but also a history of post-war Irish literature and its close ties to British and American literary life.

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