Description
In a police barracks that echoes the claustrophobic world of its author’s own upbringing, Elizabeth Reegan begins again when she marries a widower with three children. Her new life is shaped by the daily rhythms of authority and confinement—and by a husband whose bitterness turns love into endurance. As Elizabeth navigates loneliness, duty, and the fragile hope of belonging, the novel exposes how power and temperament can seep into the smallest domestic moments. With McGahern’s spare, unsentimental realism and a keen eye for emotional weather, this is a heartbreaking study of marriage, isolation, and the quiet costs of survival.
Available Editions
paperback
Faber and Faber
Published Oct 5, 1998
232 pages
ISBN: 9780571119905
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Details
First Published
1963
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Barracks by John McGahern.