Is it impossible not to think of James Joyce and “Dubliners” when reading the first story in John McGahern’s “High Ground and other stories”? I was instantly transported – and instantly enthralled. Wonderful stuff.
And if I worried that the effect would be temporary and I might find everything was downhill after that, then I needn’t have been concerned. I am already intending to read more of his short stories.
What more is there to say? That I think I may have found a new hero? Perhaps too early for that.
The next book will tell…
Ian Gouge - Writer 