Homesickness in John McGahern's short stories "Wheels" and "A slip-up"

This article focuses on two stories by John McGahern, “Wheels” and “A Slip-up”, and investigates how they relate to the representation of home and place in McGahern’s novel Amongst Women (1990). It explores how the stories take up some of the most pressing concerns in Amongst Women in the way that they productively complicate the powerful connection with the land so vividly rendered in McGahern’s wor