The barracks

The barracks

John McGahern

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Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness, marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, this was John McGahern's first novel.

Publication Year: 1963


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