Five favorite fiction titles of the new millennium (actually eighteen, with twelve nonfiction titles and some music thrown in for good measure) « Books to the Ceiling.
John McGahern’s gorgeously written novel is in a class by itself. By the Lake plumbs the human condition so deeply that it breaks through to a kind of eternal truth; namely, that certain rites of daily life confer a kind of holiness and immortality on those who are caught up in them. John McGahern: 1934-2006 I look forward to reading By the Lake again – and again…Exactly.
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