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      The Dark

      by John McGahern
      Published
      Apr 1983
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      191
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      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.

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      First Edition Apr 1983 Penguin ISBN13 9780140062373 ISBN10 0140062378
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      Mar 2002 Penguin ISBN13 9780140277951 ISBN10 0140277951
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      Feb 2009 Faber and Faber (UK) ISBN13 9780571250219 ISBN10 0571250211
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