An edition of The long falling (1998)

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An edition of The long falling (1998)

The long falling

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Grace Quinn is an Englishwoman who has lived her entire adult life in rural Ireland but is still an outsider. Isolated by religion and circumstance, she endures an abusive husband - who blames her for the death of their young son some twenty years earlier - and an increasingly estranged relationship with her surviving son, Martin, whose open homosexuality her husband refuses to accept.

Through a series of ill-fated events, Grace is emboldened to commit an act of desperation. Reeling in the aftermath, haunted by doubt and denial, she seeks out Martin in Dublin. There she is pursued by the police and an ambitious newspaper reporter. Confused about where to turn and whom to trust, she is cornered - and what unfolds is an uncompromising examination of the complex nature of love, fear, and betrayal.

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Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Pages
305

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Cover of: The Long Falling
The Long Falling
April 1, 2004, Faber and Faber
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Cover of: Long Falling
Long Falling
1999, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
Cover of: The long falling
The long falling
1998, Faber and Faber
in English
Cover of: The long falling
The long falling
1998, Houghton Mifflin
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6068.I287 L66 1998, PR6068.I287L66 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
305 p. ;
Number of pages
305

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL698097M
Internet Archive
longfalling00ridg
ISBN 10
0395905303
LCCN
97045669
OCLC/WorldCat
37854451
Library Thing
16096
Goodreads
1192223

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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).

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