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Language English Pages 320 pp Originally published 27 September 1996 Genre Novel Country Republic of Ireland | 3.9/5 Goodreads Publication date 27 September 1996 Dewey Decimal 823/.914 21 Publisher Picador OCLC 36712956 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) ISBN 0-330-34017-4 (hardback edition) & ISBN 0-330-34018-2 (paperback edition) Similar Colm Tóibín books, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Story of the Night is a novel by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín, set in Argentina in the 1980s where the main character, Richard, was born. Son of a British mother and a dead father, he must come to terms with the hidden story of his two countries now at war and his sexuality as he grows up.
Awards and nominations
It won the Ferro-Grumley Award for the "Best Gay Novel of 1997".
References
The Story of the Night Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA