The Long Falling

Name: The Long Falling
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Keith Ridgway
ISBN: 9780571216499

Keith Ridgway

01/04/2004
Faber & Faber

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Long Falling par Keith Ridgway

Résumé

Grace Quinn is an Englishwoman who has lived in rural Ireland all her adult life but is still a stranger. Haunted by the death of one son, for which her brutal husband blames her, and by the absence of another, Martin, Grace makes a decision which she hopes will alter everything. It breaks her world into pieces, and leads her into another - the city, Martin's world. The nightmare which follows draws Grace towards a place less sure, slowly filling her with hope and dread. A brilliant portrayal of of a woman on the edge, a touching portrait of a mother and son, an examination of the nature of longing and belonging, notions of foreignness and what constitutes being a foreigner, The Long Falling is a powerful and haunting novel.