The dark.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 1965
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; Ireland -- Fiction.
Description: Set in rural Ireland, John McGahern's second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father. Against a background evoked with quiet, undemonstrative mastery, McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a human situation, superficially very ordinary, but inwardly an agony of longing and despair.