John McGahern Amongst Women review, recensie en informatie Ierse familieroman uit 1990. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Amongst Women van de uit Ierland afkomstige schrijver John McGahern die verscheen in 1990. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
John McGahern Amongst Women review en recensie
- “The finest Irish family novel … We’re held in the grip of this family, and the spare prose of McGahern.” (The Guardian)
- “McGahern’s ‘masterpiece: the sort of book which you can give anyone of any age and know that they will be changed by it.” (Colm Tóibín)
- “A book that can be read in two hours, but will linger in the mind for decades.” (Sunday Telegraph)
- “McGahern brings us that tonic gift of the best fiction, the sense of truth – the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own.” (John Updike)
- “An overwhelming experience.” (The Times)
Amongst Women
- Auteur: John McGahern (Ierland)
- Soort boek: Ierse familieroman uit 1990
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Faber & Faber
- Omvang: 192 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 9,99
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
John McGahern Amonst Women review en recensie
- “The finest Irish family novel … We’re held in the grip of this family, and the spare prose of McGahern.” (The Guardian)
- “McGahern’s ‘masterpiece: the sort of book which you can give anyone of any age and know that they will be changed by it.” (Colm Tóibín)
- “A book that can be read in two hours, but will linger in the mind for decades.” (Sunday Telegraph)
- “McGahern brings us that tonic gift of the best fiction, the sense of truth – the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own.” (John Updike)
- “An overwhelming experience.” (The Times)
Flaptekst van de Ierse familieroman van John McGahern
Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm where he raises his two sons and three daughters. Adrift from the structure and security of the military, he keeps control by binding his family close to him. But as his children grow older and seek independence, and as the passing years bring with them bewildering change, Moran struggles to find a balance between love and tyranny.
John McGahern was born on 12 November 1934 in Dublin. He was the eldest of seven children, raised on a farm in the West of Ireland. The son of a Garda sergeant who had served as an IRA volunteer in the Irish War of Independence, he was devastated by his mother’s 
death when he was nine. An outstanding student, McGahern studied at University College Dublin and became a teacher but was dismissed when his second novel The Dark was banned by the Irish Censury Board. He moved to London where he met his wife madeline Green in 1967 to whom he stayed married until his death. He wrote six novels, short stories en two memoirs. John McGahern died from cancer on 30 March 2006 in the Mater Hospital, Dublin, Ireland at the age of 71. He is buried in St Patrick’s Church, Aughawillan, alongside his mother.