THE STORY OF THE NIGHT - SIGNED FIRST PRINTING

Toibin, Colm

ISBN 10: 0330340174 / ISBN 13: 9780330340175

Published by Picador, London, 1996

About this Item

Near fine first printing in fine dust wrapper. The book is square and sharp and seems unread. A couple of orange foxing spots to the page edges. The dust wrapper is unmarked and unclipped with minimal shelf wear evident to the extremities. Signed by the author to the title page without further inscription. An attractive copy of a much overlooked book.

Seller Inventory # 009869

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE STORY OF THE NIGHT - SIGNED FIRST PRINTING
• Publisher: Picador, London
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330340174
• ISBN 13: 9780330340175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Set in Argentina in the 1980s, this novel follows the progress of a lonely young man trying to live openly with his homosexuality. His coming out mirrors the country's emergence from the repressive rule of the Generals to tentative new hope under the early Menem government.

Review

In the past decade Colm Tóibín has garnered international fame for his fiction, reporting, and travel writing. Now, in his new novel, The Story of Night, he breaks new emotional ground with the story of a gay man coming of age in Argentina during the Falklands War. Tóibín weds his two themes--the ongoing Argentinean struggle toward democracy and the personal journey of a man coming out--with intellectual deftness and literary agility. Written with grace and understatement The Story of Night is Tóibín's best work yet.