{"product_id":"letters-of-john-mcgahern","title":"Letters Of John Mcgahern","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Magnificent.'' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Much to savour.'' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''An event in Irish culture.'' \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe collected letters of John McGahern, ''o\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ene of the greatest writers of our era'' (Hilary Mantel) and ''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett.’ (\u003ci\u003eGuardian)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn McGahern is consistently hailed as one of the finest Irish writers since James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.This volume collects some of the witty, profound and unfailingly brilliant letters that he exchanged with family, friends and literary luminaries – such as Seamus Heaney, Colm Tóibín and Paul Muldoon – over the course of a well-travelled life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is one of the major contributions to the study of Irish and British literature of the past thirty years, acting not just as a crucial insight into the life and works of a much-revered writer – but also a history of post-war Irish literature and its close ties to British and American literary life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''McGahern brings us that tonic gift of the best fiction, the sense of truth - the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own.'' John Updike\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57303312171390,"sku":"NW9780571387410","price":13.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571387410.jpg?v=1778516903","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/letters-of-john-mcgahern","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}