The barracks
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0571119905 / Publisher: Faber and Faber, January 1983
This novel, McGahern's first, is a tragicomedy centred on a lonely woman who marries into the enclos...
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This novel, McGahern's first, is a tragicomedy centred on a lonely woman who marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not hers, her husband is straining to escape the servile security of the police force, and her life seems to be losing all sense of purpose.
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