The Long Falling

by Keith Ridgway

Overview

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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780395957820
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/11/1999
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

KEITH RIDGWAY's stories and poems have appeared in various anthologies in Ireland, in New Writing 6, and the Best Irish Stories 1996. His novella Horses was published in volume 13 of Faber's Introduction series First Fictions. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.

What People are Saying About This

Colm Toibin

This is a murder story and a love story, and an original and dramatic insight into the clash of cultures and moralities in contemporary Ireland. The pacing is superb; the novel is written in spare, clean prose.The Long Falling is a brilliant first novel.

Editorial Reviews

"This is a murder story and a love story, and an original and dramatic insight into the clash of cultures and moralities in contemporary Ireland. The pacing is superb; the novel is written in spare, clean prose. The Long Falling is a brilliant first novel." - Colm Toibin —

From the Publisher

In this debut novel, an Englishwoman living in Ireland finds herself an outsider even in her own family.

Library Journal

What part does love play in judgments of right and wrong, good and evil? There are, of course, no easy answers. . .'I shouldn't have done it' [;] her words are a dreadful reminder that much of life's consequences are. . .dictated by the tragedy of the ill-considered action. . . -- The New York Times Book Review

Rosemary Mahoney