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By the Lake
John McGahern
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ALA Notable Books for Adults
出版Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015-02-18
主題Fiction / LiteraryFiction / Cultural HeritageFiction / Small Town & Rural
ISBN08041531919780804153195
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UOhnBgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋With this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces its natural rhythms and the inner lives of its people. Here are the Ruttledges, who have forsaken the glitter of London to raise sheep and cattle, gentle Jamesie Murphy, whose appetite for gossip both charms and intimidates his neighbors, handsome John Quinn, perennially on the look-out for a new wife, and the town’s richest man, a gruff, self-made magnate known as “the Shah.” 

Following his characters through the course of a year, through lambing and haying seasons, market days and family visits, McGahern lays bare their passions and regrets, their uneasy relationship with the modern world, their ancient intimacy with death.