{"product_id":"9780571225675-dark","title":"The Dark","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCillian Murphy: 'One of the greatest Irish writers’\u003cbr\u003eA novel 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.\u003cbr\u003e\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 Tóibín) 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31637810872417,"sku":"9780571225675","price":7.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36368494_61aa2073-85c4-4d93-86ef-0f52cbbbcd20.jpg?v=1759443558","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571225675-dark","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}