Bernard MacLaverty

by Richard Rankin Russell

Book Overview

This newly updated and expanded paperback edition of the first monograph in English on Northern Ireland-born Bernard MacLaverty discusses his fiction in its aesthetic, cultural, religious, and political contexts. Richard Rankin Russell emphasizes MacLaverty's dialectic of imprisonment versus freedom, the latter represented by love. Love in the earlier fiction is often perverted, whether in the name of family or Irish nationalism, but after the publication...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684485614
• ISBN13: 9781684485611
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.