Volume 40, Number 7 · April 8, 1993
Big News from Small Worlds
By John Banville
The Collected Stories
by John McGahern
Knopf, 408 pp., $24.00
Ulverton
by Adam Thorpe
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 390 pp., $23.00
Thus is described the work of the documentary film maker who is the central character of one of John McGahern's stories: it is also, whether consciously or unconsciously on the author's part, an accurate account of popular and critical attitudes toward McGahern's own work. Throughout his career, beginning thirty years ago with his novel The Barracks, one of his best, to Amongst Women, which was nominated for a Booker Prize in 1990 and brought him the broad recognition that should have been his from the start, he has also produced a steady stream of short stories. These he has now collected into a single, substantial volume, adding two new tales, one of them surely a masterpiece.
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