![]() ![]() McGahern ( The Dark The Pornographer ) has crafted a wise and tender novel whose brooding hero seems emblematic of an Ireland that drives away its sons and daughters. Moran also claims a renegade son in London who is ``turning himself into a sort of Englishman,'' and another son driven away by Moran's threats of beatings. Moran's second wife, Rose, much younger than he, displays saintly patience in her attempts to heal this splintering family. Yearning for approval but fearing his flare-ups, they periodically beat a path back to the farmhouse from London and Dublin, then take flight again, both proud and dependent. ![]() ![]() ![]() He kept a huge cupboard of drinks in the station house and loved to serve large measures to visiting relatives-especially those he disliked-about which there was a definite element of spreading bait for garden snails. Gruff, blustering Michael Moran, former guerrilla hero in the Irish War of Independence, is a man ``in permanent opposition.'' Now a farmer, he vents his compulsion to dominate, his cold fury and sense of betrayal on his three teenage daughters. McGaherns story centers on the life of Michael Moran, a widower in the Irish midlands in the mid20th century. John McGahern, Amongst Women 4 likes Like His abhorrence and fear of alcohol did not extend to his power as host. A lyric lament for Ireland, McGahern's lovingly observed family drama is dominated by an almost pathetic paterfamilias. ![]()
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