![]() He is sitting out there in his farm in Leitrim trying to write deathless prose, refusing to battle with necessary angels'. ![]() James Simmons, for example, in a review of Amongst Women complains that 'McGahern just doesn't care enough about what is happening in Ireland and the world and in his own life. Part of this reaction no doubt is triggered by McGahern's signature conservative narrative style, but the chief cause seems to be the retrograde nature of its material, the depiction of a dated rural community restrained and restricted by limited economic possibilities and a dominant Catholic social reality that seems distant from an Ireland of the European Union, globalization, and the Celtic Tiger. ![]() ![]() Despite the prevailing enthusiastic reception of John McGahern's Amongst Women, (1) some readers detected in the novel's focus on rural Ireland of the 1950s a reluctance on his part to engage with contemporary Irish culture. ![]()
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