num_pages: 320
description: Grace Quinn is an Englishwoman living in rural Ireland. Isolated by religion and circumstance, she endures both an abusive husband and a strained relationship with her son, Martin, whose open homosexuality her husband refused to accept. After an act of desperation, reeling with doubt and denial, she seeks out her son in Dublin. Keith Ridgway "affectingly renders the separate sanctuaries of mother and son . . .and lights the distance between them" (The New Yorker).
language: English
title: The Long Falling
titlecomplete: The Long Falling
genres: Fiction, Ireland, Family, Queer, LGBT, Psychology, Novels, Irish Literature, Literary Fiction, Gay
ratings_count: 132
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Prix Femina
category: Étranger, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: The Ferro-Grumley Awards
publisher: Harper Perennial