John McGahern’s Getting Through is an outstanding collection of stories by one of Ireland’s greatest writers.
Stories by one of the outstanding Irish writers of today, author of Nightlines, The Barracks, The Dark, The Leavetaking, The Pornographer, High Ground, Amongst Women (nominated for the Booker Prize in 1990) and That They May Face the Rising Sun.
'I haven't admired a short-story collection so much for a long time.' - John Fowles, Irish Press
'A fine and interesting development from Nightlines. Prose which always possesses an astringent purity and delicacy.' - Tom Paulin, Encounter
'Confirms his high reputation. It's almost as difficult to see how he gets his effects as it is in a book of Coppard stories. it is a rare talent.' The Times
'His terse narrative seems free and full. He has the Irish gift of being able to move fluently and unselfconsciously between a simple and a heightened style.' - The Times Literary Supplement
