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Patrick McGinley (1937 - present) is an Irish novelist, born in Glencolumbkille, Ireland. After teaching in Ireland, McGinley moved to England where he pursued a career as a publisher and author.
His strongest literary influence is his Irish predecessor; author Flann O'Brien, who McGinley emulates most noticeably in his novel The Devil's Diary. McGinley is the author of eight novels including: Goosefoot (1983) Foggage (1983) The Trick of the Ga Bolga (1986) and most recently The Lost Soldier's Song (1994).
Patrick McGinley (b 1937) is an Irish novelist, born in Glencolumbkille, Ireland.
After teaching in Ireland, McGinley moved to England where he pursued a career as a publisher and author. Among his strongest literary influences is his Irish predecessor, author Flann O'Brien, who McGinley emulates most noticeably in his novel The Devil's Diary.
The Red Men
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9781448209620
- Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
- Publication date: 07/10/2012
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 297
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Patrick McGinley's sixth novel, true to his distinctive style, is set in the austere and haunting landscape and shoreline of the author's native county, Donegal, Ireland. Love and death appear as the inescapable enigmas of being in the world.
The Red Men is rich in vocabulary, in the particularities of daily life, and in various surprising areas of arcane lore.
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Isolationspiritual, social, and physicalpermeates this novel. Four brothers in a tiny coastal community in Ireland await the death of their father, Gulban. He has ruled his tiny empire of hotel, shop, and farm, and will leave it to one of them: the one who best meets the test of handling a large sum of money for one year. Each brother must also reconcile his love for Pauline, their childhood playmate and now bookkeeper of the hotel and Gulban's right hand. The test is further complicated by death, the most isolating event of all. Within this tiny self-contained world a surprising variety emergesand a dark pastbefore the final death that scatters all but one to the four winds. A well-told tale of familial love and conflict, by the author of Foxprints and The Trick of Ga Golga . Ann Donovan, Central Washington Univ. Lib., Ellensburg