The barracks

By Georges-Michel Sarotte, John McGahern

Subjects: Police, Cancer in women, Literature, Catholics, 18.05 English literature, Fiction, family life, Fiction, Ireland, fiction, Married people, Fiction, psychological, Married people, fiction, Translations into French, Terminally ill, Fiction in English

Description: Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own, and her husband is straining against his job in the police force. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, this is a novel of haunting power.