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A long winter / Colm Tóibín.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Snack Tóibín Long
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tóibín, Colm, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay men--Fiction.
- Gay men.
- Mothers and sons--Fiction.
- Mothers and sons.
- Winter--Fiction.
- Winter.
- Blizzards--Fiction.
- Blizzards.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Grief--Fiction.
- Grief.
- Pyrenees--Fiction.
- Pyrenees.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Domestic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 137 pages ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- Scribner hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2025.
- Summary:
- "A young man named Miquel returns to his family in the Catalan Pyrenees upon completing his military service. His younger brother, Jordi, will be departing for his service a week after Miquel's arrival. He will be gone for two years. Miquel notices their mother's increasingly erratic behavior and understands that she is drinking. As she becomes increasingly unstable, her husband resorts to drastic measures. Unable to abide his betrayal and her own grief, she walks off into the mountains. A blizzard sets in and the search for her is futile. No one will find her until the spring thaw arrives"-- Provided by publisher.
- One snowy morning, after arguing with her husband, Miquel's mother walks out from their home high up in the Pyrenees and does not return. With his younger brother stationed far away on military service and his father cast out by the people of the town, Miquel and his father are left to fend for themselves. Together they will be forced to battle the elements, and their resentment of each other, through the long winter. Miquel's desperate searching for his mother is only interrupted when Manolo, an orphaned servant boy from the next village, arrives to help out in the house. As Miquel is forced to confront the reality of his mother's absence, Manolo, with his silences and longing gaze, offers the promise of new love, and another kind of life.
- Notes:
- [The story] "was published first as a limited edition. And then in late 2006 it was published at the end of the book of stories Mothers and sons"--p. 135.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 1668212714
- 9781668212714
- OCLC:
- 1511072677
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