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That They May Face
the Rising Sun
John McGahern
John McGahern is considered by many to be the finest Irish writer now
working in prose. That They May Face the Rising Sun vividly brings to
life a whole world and its people with insight, humour and deep sym-
pathy. This small community lives around a lake, deep in rural Ireland,
close to the Border.
Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come back to Ireland from London in search
of a different life. There is John Quinn, who will stop at nothing to ensure
a flow of women; Johnny, who left for England 20 years before in pursuit
of love; Jimmy Joe McKiernan, auctioneer, undertaker and head of the
local IRA; and the gentle Jamesie and his wife Mary who have never left
the lake and know everything that happens in the area.
In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in the lives of these me-
morable characters unfolds through the action, the rituals...
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WRITER? s >
That They May Face
the Rising Sun
John McGahern
John McGahern is considered by many to be the finest Irish writer now
working in prose. That They May Face the Rising Sun vividly brings to
life a whole world and its people with insight, humour and deep sym-
pathy. This small community lives around a lake, deep in rural Ireland,
close to the Border.
Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come back to Ireland from London in search
of a different life. There is John Quinn, who will stop at nothing to ensure
a flow of women; Johnny, who left for England 20 years before in pursuit
of love; Jimmy Joe McKiernan, auctioneer, undertaker and head of the
local IRA; and the gentle Jamesie and his wife Mary who have never left
the lake and know everything that happens in the area.
In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in the lives of these me-
morable characters unfolds through the action, the rituals of work, religious
observances and play. By the novel's close we feel that we have been intro-
duced, with decepti ve simplicity, to a complete representation of existence
- an enclosed world has been transformed into an Everywhere.
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