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John McGahern - That They May Face the Rising Sun
Faber and Faber

Perhaps the first thing to say about John McGahern’s new novel is that very little happens; and yet, everything happens. There is little conventional plot or character development, but stories get told, characters are delineated. The rhythm of the prose takes its beat from the natural world, the changing seasons around a lake in an unspecified border county, sometime in the late eighties or early nineties.
Masterpieces do not come along every year, or even every decade. But it is not besmirching through exaggeration that overused and so degraded term to apply it here. I bow, awestruck before such an achievement.
Review by Desmond Traynor, Books Ireland.

That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern

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