The Long Falling Paperback - 1999
by Keith Ridgway
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- Paperback
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".
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Details
- Title The Long Falling
- Author Keith Ridgway
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Softcover.
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Boston
- Date 1999
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0395957826I4N00
- ISBN 9780395957820 / 0395957826
- Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.56 x 5.54 x 0.79 in (21.74 x 14.07 x 2.01 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Ireland
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: Irish
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96045669
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
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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Citations
- New York Times, 07/18/1999, Page 28