Collected Stories - Softcover

Gentle, lyrical, an amorist of language, a natural historian of the soul. (Irish Times)

Exquisite short stories . . . Here is a Dublin of tatty dancehalls and uneasy courtships, of kisses in damp doorways and unfulfilled hungerings . . . Writing of extraordinary beauty. (Joseph O'Connor Guardian)

One of the greatest writers of our era. (Hilary Mantel)

The Collected Stories of John McGahern, one of Ireland's finest writers, seem to span every human experience. (Cosmopolitan)

He writes with authority and gravity, and with an instinct for the most appropriate detail. (Times Literary Supplement)

This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern's short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. McGahern has long been recognized as a contemporary master of the short story; The Collected Stories confirms his reputation as Ireland's leading prose writer.