The War for Gloria

The War for Gloria
Atticus Lish
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Paperback
h196 x 128mm - 448pg
26 May 2022 UK
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9781800812659
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Corey Goltz grows up in working-class Boston as the only child of Gloria, whose intellectual ambitions were derailed early. Corey, restless, dreams of a great adventure. Instead, when he is fifteen, Gloria is diagnosed with ALS and, too late, his estranged father, Leonard - a man of great charisma and deep resentments - reenters the picture. Determined to be his mother' s hero at any cost, Corey begins shouldering responsibility for her expensive medical care, pushing himself to his physical and emotional limits as her disease progresses. And as Leonard' s influence over Corey grows, Corey must dismantle the myth of his father' s genius and confront the evil that lurks beneath it. This is a heartbreaking, shocking and beautiful novel. It confirms Lish as one of the greatest storytellers and prose stylists in the English language.
' Praise for Preparation for the Next Life' - : ' A stunning, brilliant novel . . . Every word, every encounter, rings true' - ' Pick of the Week' ' Extraordinary . . . "Make it new" was Ezra Pound' s exhortation . . . Lish does exactly that . . . astonishing . . . nothing less than a triumph, worthy of every heroic adjective a critic could throw. It is a reminder, plain and simple, of what fiction is for' - FT ' Impressive . . . Charged with breathless momentum . . . substantial and beguiling' - Guardian ' This behemoth of a novel packs an emotional punch that will send you reeling. . . a disturbing and compelling picture of lives in the margins' - Mail on Sunday
ATTICUS LISH is the author of Preparation for the Next Life, which won the 2015 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2016 Grand Prix de Litterature Americaine.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781800812659
Published: 26 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Serpent's Tail
Publisher: Profile Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 196mm
Width: 128mm
Spine: 40mm
Weight: 340g
Pages: 448

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