Alice taylor the women6/8/2023 ![]() I think that many readers found themselves in those two books. How do you account for their success?Īs John McGahern observed, a book comes alive in the hands of the reader. Quench the Lamp has sold more than 120,000. ![]() You originally planned to give your children a photocopy of the manuscript that became To School Through the Fields, but then you approached Brandon and it sold more than 200,000 copies. His love-hate relationship with the land could be understood by anyone reared on a farm. Tarry Flynn and The Green Fool really captured the guts of rural Ireland. ![]() I heard him once say that a book only comes alive in the hands of the reader.Īlso up there would be Patrick Kavanagh in both his poetry and his prose. My favourite John McGahern book would be Amongst Women. On first reading The Dark many years ago, I was totally intrigued by it. ![]()
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