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The war for Gloria / Atticus Lish.

Lish, Atticus, (author.).

Summary:
"From the author of the PEN/Faulkner winning debut novel Preparation for the Next Life--a searing, tender, haunting story about fathers and sons, sons and mothers, and a young boy's struggle to become a man. Corey Goltz is fifteen years old when his mother, Gloria, is diagnosed with ALS. Estranged from his father, and increasingly responsible for meeting both his mother's needs and his own, Corey is determined to be the hero Gloria needs --at any cost. But when his father Leonard re-enters the picture, Corey's beliefs--about honor and love, duty and devotion, and the uses and misuses of power--are sorely tested. Charismatic and cruel, Leonard is a man of outsize influence and dubious moral character, a man whose neglect of his wife and son amounts to a kind of barbarism. The closer Corey gets to understanding his father's role in their family, the closer he comes to unmasking a violence that is beyond even his worst imaginings. Set against the backdrop of a small town in Massachusetts in the early 2000s, where the working class world collides with the professional and academic worlds of nearby Boston and Cambridge, The War For Gloria tells the story of a young man straddling childhood and adulthood, whose yearning to protect his mother requires him to dismantle the myth of--and possibly destroy--his father. A gripping, indelible work from a fearless new voice in American fiction"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781524732325
  • ISBN: 152473232X
  • Physical Description: viii, 441 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Subject: Mothers and sons > Fiction.
Fathers and sons > Fiction.
Abusive men > Fiction.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis > Patients > Fiction.
Genre: Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans.

Available copies

  • 14 of 15 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 15 total copies.
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Abington Community Library FICTION LISH (Text) 50687011740894 Adult Fiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library FICTION LISH (Text) 50686016093127 Adult Fiction Available -
Ellwood City Area Public Library FIC Lish (Text) 32102000910915 ECAM New Fiction Available -
Emmaus Public Library FIC LISH, ATTICUS (Text) 36446002058603 Adult Fiction Available -
Highland Community Library F LIS (Text) 35610000980214 HGHM Fiction In Transit -
Indian Valley Public Library Fiction Lish (Text) 39427103607263 Fiction Room: Adult Fiction Available -
Lower Macungie Library FIC LIS (Text) 33400001528408 Adult Fiction Available -
Parkland Community Library F LIS (Text) 34422007243278 Adult Fiction Available -
Pottsville Free Public Library FIC (Text) 30003009068246 Adult Fiction Available -
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