The Story of the Night

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. 'The Story of the Night is, in the end, a love story of the most serious and difficult kind. Toibin has told it with profound artistry and truth' Tobias Wolff 'Nobody before Toibin 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 Toibin's masterly prose make this novel sheer pleasure to read' Norman Thomas di Giovanni, The Times

ISBN 0330340182   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780330340182 (What's this?)   Pages 320 Publisher Pan Macmillan   Weight (grammes) 211 Imprint Picador   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 197 Publication date 05 Sep 1997   Width (mm) 130 Non-book description 311   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 823.914   Academic level General

"An impressive, beautifully modulated, affecting book."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides, author of "Middlesex"

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