All Will Be Well A Memoir First Edition 1st Printing John Mcgahern by John Mcgahern 9781400044962, 1400044960 instant download after payment.

As wise and compelling a book as any of his elegiac and graceful novels. David MitchellThis is the story of John McGaherns childhood; of his mothers death, his fathers anger and bafflement, and his own discovery of literature.Long before Frank McCourt made an entire industry out of twinkly eyed accounts of the poverty and institutionalised brutality of mid-twentieth-century rural Ireland, John McGahern, Irelands greatest living novelist, had already shone wise and unsparing light on this same world Memoir is the full, unadorned story of his childhood and adolescence in Leitrim His finest book yet. Stephanie Merritt, ObserverIn a tremendously distinguished career, he has never written more movingly, or with a sharper eye. Andrew Motion, GuardianI have admired, even loved, John McGaherns work since his first novel Memoir strips the skin off his fiction as he faces a desperate early life with great force and tenderness.