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Bringing John McGahern’s 1965 masterpiece back into print in the United States after years of inaccessibility, this new sixtieth-anniversary critical edition includes an introduction aimed at first-time readers, explanatory footnotes, McGahern’s own glossary, and four scholarly essays aimed at guiding readers through the novel’s famously controversial history. While the text was initially banned in Ireland for obscenity, this edition demonstrates that McGahern’s novel of adolescence is not obscene, but revelatory, exposing the corruption underlying authority structures in mid-century Ireland—from the family to the church, to the government’s willingness to ignore national and communal trauma. The Dark follows a promising young boy’s struggles to break free from the economic and social forces trapping him in a lifestyle that is both familiar and suffocating. At the heart of the novel is the boy’s complex and stormy relationship with his abusive, widowed father, who is left to raise a family with little outside aid. The Dark is a story of alarming brutality, surprising tenderness, and poetic lyricism; a reflection of Irish society that maintains historical significance as contemporary Ireland continues to build its national identity.

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Book category Books in German Belletristik Erzählende Literatur Hauptwerk vor 1945

• Full title: The Dark
• Author: Anna Teekell, Ellen Scheible
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274
• EAN: 9780815638612
• ISBN: 0815638612
• ID: 46642215
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Weight: 408 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. May 2025

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