{"product_id":"the-pornographer-paperback","title":"The Pornographer - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn McGahern\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnne Enright\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy \"arguably the most important Irish writer since Samuel Beckett\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e), a character study of a young resident of Dublin who pens erotica for a living, making his money through fantasy while denying the realities of love and sex in his life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pornographer\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a writer down on his luck, not a Dubliner but a resident of Dublin penning far from erotic tales to make ends meet. These tales--revolving around the \"delicious, unending revel\" of Colonel Grimshaw and the typist Mavis Carmichael--form a mordant counterpoint to his own, much more complicated existence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThirty years old, befogged by alcohol, sensitive yet indifferent to all emotional weather, he meets the slightly older Josephine, a clever, cautiously optimistic magazine editor who soon confesses her love, and though the feeling isn't mutual (as he makes painfully clear) the affair goes on; Josephine becomes pregnant; and, this being Ireland in the seventies, the piper must be paid. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNot cruel but callous, the pornographer reels through his days, paying regular visits to a beloved aunt from the country who now lies dying in Dublin, and to his publisher, a citified and cynical Polonius who advises him to \"be careful not to let life in.\" As the days turn into months, he begins to wonder what letting life in might look like. What would it mean, and where would it lead, to do right by others? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1979, John McGahern's fourth novel is a character study of rare and unsparing insight. In rhythmic, lyrical prose, McGahern gives voice to the longing and self-loathing of a soul caught between a traditional world he believes he has rejected and a brave new world of advertised freedoms, sexual and otherwise, which offers no guarantee of love.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalled \"arguably the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett\" by The Guardian, \u003cb\u003eJohn McGahern\u003c\/b\u003e (1934-2006) was a writer and novelist who has had an immense influence on contemporary writing both in his home country and abroad. He wrote six novels during his lifetime, the last being \u003ci\u003eThat They May Face the Rising Sun\u003c\/i\u003e (published as \u003ci\u003eBy the Lake\u003c\/i\u003e in the U.S.), which won Novel of the Year at the 2003 Irish Book Awards. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Enright\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books of fiction, most recently the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Wren, the Wren\u003c\/i\u003e. She received the Irish PEN Award for Literature in 2017 and served as the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction from 2015 to 2018.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44338993823846,"sku":"9781681378800","price":25.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/waidcF0HFY9781681378800.webp?v=1768539068","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-pornographer-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}