That They May Face the Rising Sun
by John McGahernliterary work
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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.
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That They May Face the Rising Sun was adapted into a 2023 film.
That They May Face the Rising Sun2023 · film · 111 min · dir. Pat Collins · IMDb ↗IMDb7.697%Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.
