Title: The dark
Description: The Dark, John McGaherns second novel, is set in rural Ireland. The themes that McGahern has made his own are adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both a 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.
Subjects: Fathers and sons, Fiction, Literature, Translations into French, Irish fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Ireland, fiction, Fiction, general, Fathers and sons, fiction
Places: Ireland
People: John McGahern (1934-2006)