The War for Gloria 9780525433217 Lish

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Titel: The War for Gloria
Auteur: Lish
ISBN: 9780525433217
Conditie: Als nieuw

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR This deeply immersive novel (The Washington Post) from the author of the awardwinning Preparation for the Next Life is an epic coming-of-age tale filled with pain, heartache, fear, and undying love (The Associated Press), as a young mans yearning to protect his dying mother requires him to risk destroying his estranged, enigmatic, powerful father.

From its hypnotic opening pages, we find ourselves in the sure hands of a roaming omniscient narrator, one who knows intimately the beating hearts of its two central characters Andre Dubus III, The New York Times Book Review

Corey Goltz grows up in the working-class outskirts of Boston as the only child of Gloria, whose ambitions were derailed early but who has always given her son everything she can. Corey, restless, dreams of leaving home for a great adventure.

Instead, when he is fifteen, the world comes crashing down upon him, when Gloria is diagnosed with ALS and, too late, his estranged father, Leonarda man of great charisma but dubious moral characterreenters the picture. Determined to be his mothers hero at any cost, Corey begins shouldering responsibility for her expensive medical care, pushing himself to his physical and emotional limits as her disease cruelly progresses. And as Leonards influence over Corey grows, Corey must dismantle the myth of his fathers genius and confront the evil that lurks beneath it.

Gritty, visceral, and profoundly stirring, The War for Gloria tells the story of a young man, straddling childhood and adulthood, whose yearning to protect his mother requires him to risk destroying his father. An indelible work from a strikingly original voice in American fiction.

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