The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín - ISBN: 9781035030859
Paperback
Hidden desires, risky choices, a man’s emergence in Argentina.

The Story of the Night

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    9 April 2024

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Summary

Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks. Set in Argentina in a time of great change, The Story of the Night is a powerful and moving novel about a man who, as the Falklands War is fought and lost, finds his own way to emerge into the world.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781035030859
ISBN-10:1035030853
Author:Colm Tóibín
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Picador
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:9 April 2024
Weight:222g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 20mm
Series:Picador Collection
What They're Saying

Critics Review

A brave and remarkable novel, the impact of which no reader will shed. – Dermot Bolger * Sunday Independent *
The Story of the Night is, in the end, a love story of the most serious and difficult kind. Tóibín has told it with profound artistry and truth. – Tobias Wolff
Nobody before Tóibín has made such honesty stand so clearly for political and personal integrity … In each of his first three novels he has invented a strong central character but Garay is by far his most memorable. – Edmund White * Sunday Times *
A remarkable achievement … The ease, the fluidity, the economy, the precision of Tóibín’s masterly prose make this novel sheer pleasure to read. – Norman Thomas di Giovanni * The Times *

About The Author

Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of eleven novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, and The Magician. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, and won the Costa Novel Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Impac Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction.

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