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BOOK OF THE WEEK Wed 21 Oct 16:31
Reviewed: John McGahern: A Writing
Life is a definitive biography
In 1979, John McGahern returned to his
native Co Leitrim after a period of
exile in London and Paris. The furore
around his second novel The Dark was
already more than a decade old, and by
then he had sharpened his craft into
writing about subjects that were
uncomfortable to the Irish
establishment.
In his fourth novel, The Pornographer,
he has this to say about the art of
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