The Long Falling

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**From Amazon.com:** 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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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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Other Editions

• The Long FallingHoughton Mifflin1998-01-01
• The long fallingFaber and Faber1998-01-01
• Long FallingHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company1999-01-01
• The Long FallingPaperbackFaber and Faber2004-04-01