To leave the everpresent tension of Great Meadow was like shedding stiff, formal clothes or kicking off pinching shoes.
John McGahernAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: irish
- Born: November 12, 1934
- Died: March 30, 2006
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Yes, because to be treated as a boy was to be taken on the old footing. I had become a new person; and those who knew the old person laughed at me. The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
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