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That they may face the rising sun / John McGahern.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction McGahern That
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGahern, John, 1934-2006
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--Ireland.
- English fiction.
- Ireland--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Ireland.
- Country life--Fiction.
- Country life.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Domestic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 314 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Faber, 2009.
- Summary:
- "Joe and Kate Ruttledge, have come to rural Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through action, the rituals of work, religious observances and play. By the novel's close we feel that we have been introduced, with deceptive simplicity, to a complete representation of existence - an enclosed world has been transformed into an Everywhere"--Cover.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2002.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Nora Barry.
- ISBN:
- 9780571225729
- 0571225721
- OCLC:
- 429599196
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