Snail Slow
Colm Tóibín: Letters to John McGahern, 27 January 2022
The Letters of John McGahern
edited by Frank Shovlin.
Faber, 851 pp., £30, September 2021,978 0 571 32666 2 Show More
edited by Frank Shovlin.
Faber, 851 pp., £30, September 2021,
“... The Barracks (1963), The Dark (1965) – and in some of his best short stories. ‘Gugering,’ Frank Shovlin explains in a footnote, ‘is the act of dropping seed potatoes into holes in the ground.’ Uncle Pat, he suggests, is a model for the fictional character ‘The Shah’ in McGahern’s final novel, That They Might Face the Rising Sun ... ”
