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Anne Enright Reads John McGahern

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Exploring Mortality and Memory in McGahern's 'Sierra Leone'

This chapter presents a reading of John McGahern's 'Sierra Leone,' examining its setting during the Cuban Missile Crisis in Dublin. It discusses themes of fear, mortality, and the effects of storytelling's repetition on personal and communal experiences.

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