{"product_id":"the-dark-cillian-murphy-one-of-the-greatest-irish-writers","title":"The Dark: Cillian Murphy: 'One of the greatest Irish writers'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe celebrated second novel by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin) is 'a perfectly written tour de force'  (\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e) and 'the best novel to come out of Ireland in many years.' \u003ci\u003e(Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in rural Ireland, John McGahern's second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father. Against a background evoked with quiet mastery, McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a human situation, superficially very ordinary, but inwardly an agony of longing and despair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wise and compelling ... Elegiac and graceful.'\u003c\/b\u003e David Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I have admired, even loved, John McGahern's work since his first novel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.'\u003c\/b\u003e Melvyn Bragg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 192 pages | Published June 2008\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63986096243037,"sku":"9780571225675","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9780571225675.jpg?v=1774495718","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/the-dark-cillian-murphy-one-of-the-greatest-irish-writers","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}