Volume 53, Number 5 · March 23, 2006
A Version of Pastoral
By Denis Donoghue
All Will Be Well: A Memoir
by John McGahern
Knopf, 289 pp., $25.00
All Will Be Well is John McGahern's account of his life, from a grim childhood to the start of his career as a novelist with the publication of The Barracks (1963) and The Dark (1965), books that established him as one of Ireland's most prominent writers. He was born on November 12, 1934, in Dublin, the eldest child of a family that eventually came to seven children. He spent his early years in Ballinamore, County Leitrim. His mother was a teacher, employed when her health permitted in Aughawillian and other small, remote schools in Leitrim. She was an ardent believer in the Catholic faith that surrounded her. As McGahern recalls in All Will Be Well:
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