The Dark by John McGahern - 1965

E-35: Faber & Faber. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Faber and Faber. 1965. 191 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present (chips present around the extremities). Bound in cloth boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Review slip laid in. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Dark, widely acclaimed, yet infamously banned, is John McGahern’s sensitive, perceptive, and beautifully written portrayal of a young man’s coming-of-age in rural Ireland. Imaginative and introverted, the boy is successful in school, but bitterly confused by the guilt-inducing questions he endures from the priests who should be his venerated guides. His relationship with his bullying, bigoted, widowed father is similarly conflicted — touched with both deep love and carefully suppressed hatred. E-35; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pages .