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The Long Falling.
by Ridgway, Keith
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards with cloth at the spine, brown binding; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket;
- ISBN 10
- 0395905303
- ISBN 13
- 9780395905302
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards with cloth at the spine, brown binding; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Mustard color endpapers. Description: Dust jacket design by Michaela Sullivan; jacket photograph by Jane Vollers. This was the first novel from this Irish author. This work, under its French title Mauvaise Pente, was awarded both the Prix Femina Etranger and the Prix Premier Roman.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014897
- Title
- The Long Falling.
- Author
- Ridgway, Keith
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards with cloth at the spine, brown binding; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket;
- Edition
- 1st Printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395905303
- ISBN 13
- 9780395905302
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- 1998.
- Pages
- 305 pages.
- Size
- 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall)
Terms of Sale
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Oroville, California
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