The barracks
By: John McGahern
Publisher: Faber
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780571248827
Subjects: Married women; Fiction; Social life and customs; Manners and customs; General
Description: Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own, and her husband is straining against his job in the police force. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, this is a novel of haunting power.
Notes: Originally published: 1963.