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A review by faintgirl
That They May Face The Rising Sun by John McGahern
2.0
Isn't Ireland wonderful? Just the very fact that it exists and old men get drunk there makes for endless tales of rural joy and occasional moments of pain that are so intrinsically wonderful to tell in great detail that there is absolutely no need for anything to happen. At all. Kate and Ruttledge move back to Ireland from their nasty awful non Irish lives in London and then they grow a few plants and buy and sell a few sheep and that's pretty much it. But there's a guy called Jamesie who occasionally embarrasses his family when drunk and a loquacious local who may or may not be a rapist so you know, what else do you need? Ugh.