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John McGahern's second novel, The Dark, confirmed and enhanced the reputation he gained with his first, The Barracks. The scene is set in rural Ireland and the central theme is adolescence, impelled forward by ambition and sexuality, guilty and uncontrollable, contorted and twisted by a puritanical and passionate religion and, above all, by a strange, powerful, ambiguous relationship between son and widower father. Against a background evoked with quiet, undemonstrative mastery, McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a situation superficially very ordinary but inwardly an agony of longing and despair.
Controversial in its day, it remains a keenly observed insight into a young boy's relationship with his own life, his sexuality and his widowed father. Precise and tender, it was the novel that established McGahern on the world stage as a young novelist of note.
This edition is a Panther UK PB reprint, with cover art by Philip Castle. Light page tanning, spine uncreased, a sharp paperback copy.
