That They May Face the Rising Sun

That They May Face the Rising Sun
AuthorJohn McGahern
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
Set inIreland, 1970s
Publication date
2003
Publication placeIreland
820
LC ClassPR6063.A2176 B9

That They May Face the Rising Sun, the sixth and final novel by John McGahern, is a critically acclaimed work, winning the Irish Book Awards in 2003 and earning a nomination for the International Dublin Literary Award. In the United States, the novel was published under the title By the Lake. The novel is a portrait of a year in the life of a rural Irish lakeside community.