| The Long Falling Contributor(s): Ridgway, Keith (Author) |
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ISBN: 0395957826 ISBN-13: 9780395957820 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1999 Annotation: In this "elegant and darkly human" ("Newsday") first novel, Grace Quinn is an English woman living in rural Ireland with her abusive husband and her son Martin, whose open homosexuality her husband refuses to accept. "Excruciatingly suspenseful".--"New York Times Book Review". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96045669 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.54" W x 8.56" (0.91 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Ireland - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - Irish - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Grace Quinn is an Englishwoman living in rural Ireland. Isolated by religion and circumstance, she endures both an abusive husband and a strained relationship with her son, Martin, whose open homosexuality her husband refused to accept. After an act of desperation, reeling with doubt and denial, she seeks out her son in Dublin. Keith Ridgway affectingly renders the separate sanctuaries of mother and son . . .and lights the distance between them (The New Yorker). |
Contributor Bio(s): Ridgway, Keith: - KEITH RIDGWAY's stories and poems have appeared in various anthologies in Ireland, in New Writing 6, and the Best Irish Stories 1996. His novella Horses was published in volume 13 of Faber's Introduction series First Fictions. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. |