The Barracks

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Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to break free from the servile security of the police force; and her own life, threatened by illness, seems to be losing the last vestiges of its purpose. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, John McGahern's first novel is one of haunting power.

Author Bio

John McGahern was born in Dublin in 1934 and brought up in the West of Ireland. He is a graduate of the University College, Dublin. He is the author of six highly acclaimed novels and four collections of short stories, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship, the American-Irish Award, the Prix Estrang're Ecureuil and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.


Amongst Women, which has won both the GPA and the The Irish Times Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a four part BBC television series. His work has appeared in anthologies and has been translated into many languages. John McGahern lives in Ireland.