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The Year of Ice
0Authors : Brian Malloy
ISBN10 : 0312313691 ISBN13 : 9780312313692
Genres : LGBT,Fiction,Young Adult,Gay,Romance,M M Romance,GLBT,Queer,Coming Of Age,Gay Fiction,Contemporary
Language: English
Paperback, 272 pages
Published October 11th 2003 by St. Martin's Griffin
Description
It is 1978 in the Twin Cities, and Kevin Doyle, a high school senior, is a marginal student in love with keggers, rock and roll, and--unbeknownst to anyone else--a boy in his class with thick eyelashes and a bad attitude. His mother Eileen died two years earlier when her car plunged into the icy wat......more
It is 1978 in the Twin Cities, and Kevin Doyle, a high school senior, is a marginal student in love with keggers, rock and roll, and--unbeknownst to anyone else--a boy in his class with thick eyelashes and a bad attitude. His mother Eileen died two years earlier when her car plunged into the icy waters of the Mississippi River, and since then Kevin's relationship with his father Patrick has become increasingly distant. As lonely women vie for his father's attention, Kevin discovers Patrick's own closely guarded secret: he had planned to abandon his family for another woman. More disturbingly, his mother's death may well have been a suicide, not an accident.
Complicating the family dynamic is the constant meddling of Kevin's outspoken Aunt Nora--who will never forgive Patrick for Eileen's death--along with Patrick's inability to stay single for very long. His loyalties divided between his father and his aunt, between his internal reality and his public persona, Kevin is forced to accept his gay identity and reevaluate his notions of family and love as painful truths emerge about both.(less)
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About the author(Brian Malloy)
Thanks for stopping by! My novels are The Year of Ice (St. Martin's Press), Brendan Wolf (St. Martin's Press), and the young-adult novel Twelve Long Months (Scholastic). I regained the rights to my first two novels from St. Martin's Press, and have re-published them under my own imprint.
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Thanks for stopping by! My novels are The Year of Ice (St. Martin's Press), Brendan Wolf (St. Martin's Press), and the young-adult novel Twelve Long Months (Scholastic). I regained the rights to my first two novels from St. Martin's Press, and have re-published them under my own imprint.
My books have been a Book Sense pick, a New York Times "New and Notable" title, and a Booklist editors' choice, and have won the Minnesota Book Award and the American Library Association's Alex Award.
My new novel is After Francesco (John Scognamiglio/Kensington).
Thanks for stopping by! My novels are The Year of Ice (St. Martin's Press), Brendan Wolf (St. Martin's Press), and the young-adult novel Twelve Long Months (Scholastic). I regained the rights to my first two novels from St. Martin's Press, and have re-published them under my own imprint.
My books have been a Book Sense pick, a New York Times "New and Notable" title, and a Booklist editors' choice, and have won the Minnesota Book Award and the American Library Association's Alex Award.
My new novel is After Francesco (John Scognamiglio/Kensington). (less)