Book description
John Gabriel Borkman, wealthy, powerful, revered, sacrificed love
for success and was handsomely rewarded. Now, disgraced and destitute
after financial scandal and a jail sentence, he paces out each day
alone, planning his comeback. Downstairs, his wife, Gunhild, lives a
parallel existence, plotting for their son to restore the family's
reputation. But with the arrival of Gunhild's twin sister Ella, the
woman whose love Borkman gave away, the claustrophobic stasis is
shattered once and for all.
Frank McGuinness was born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal, and now
lives in Dublin and lectures in English at University College Dublin.
