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  <name><![CDATA[John McGahern]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[McGahern began his career as a schoolteacher at Scoil Eoin Báiste (Belgrove) primary school in Clontarf, Ireland, where, for a period, he taught the eminent academic Declan Kiberd before turning to writing full-time.
McGahern's novel 'The Dark' was banned in Ireland for its alleged pornographic content and implied clerical sexual abuse. In the controversy over this he was forced to resign his teaching post. He subsequently moved to England where he worked in a variety of jobs before returning to Ireland to live and work on a small farm in Fenagh in County Leitrim, located halfway between Ballinamore and Mohill.
He died from cancer in Dublin on March 30, 2006.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Dublin</hometown>  <born_at>11/12/1934</born_at>  <died_at>03/30/2006</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Amongst Women]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John McGahern]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.81</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>147</ratings_count>
  <published>1998</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[That They May Face the Rising Sun]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John McGahern]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.91</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>78</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Dark]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John McGahern]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>77</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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        <book id="430365">
  <title><![CDATA[All Will Be Well: A Memoir]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[John McGahern]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.90</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>40</ratings_count>
  <published>2005</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Collected Stories]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[John McGahern]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.16</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>31</ratings_count>
  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Barracks]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[John McGahern]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>34</ratings_count>
  <published>1963</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Pornographer]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[John McGahern]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.50</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>34</ratings_count>
  <published>1979</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Leavetaking]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[John McGahern]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>18</ratings_count>
  <published>1975</published>  
  
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        <book id="2220954">
  <title><![CDATA[Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[John McGahern]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.29</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>7</ratings_count>
  <published>1992</published>  
  
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        <book id="776249">
  <title><![CDATA[High Ground: Stories]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[John McGahern]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.67</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
  <published>1985</published>  
  
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