{"product_id":"the-war-for-gloria-paperback","title":"The War for Gloria - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAtticus Lish\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR -\u003c\/b\u003e This \"deeply immersive novel\" (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post)\u003c\/i\u003e from the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003ePreparation for the Next Life \u003c\/i\u003eis an \"epic coming-of-age tale filled with pain, heartache, fear, and undying love\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Associated Press\u003c\/i\u003e), as a young man's yearning to protect his dying mother requires him to risk destroying his estranged, enigmatic, powerful father.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \"From its hypnotic opening pages, we find ourselves in the sure hands of a roaming omniscient narrator, one who knows intimately the beating hearts of its two central characters\" --Andre Dubus III, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCorey Goltz grows up in the working-class outskirts of Boston as the only child of Gloria, whose ambitions were derailed early but who has always given her son everything she can. Corey, restless, dreams of leaving home for a great adventure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInstead, when he is fifteen, the world comes crashing down upon him, when Gloria is diagnosed with ALS and, too late, his estranged father, Leonard--a man of great charisma but dubious moral character--reenters the picture. Determined to be his mother's hero at any cost, Corey begins shouldering responsibility for her expensive medical care, pushing himself to his physical and emotional limits as her disease cruelly progresses. And as Leonard's influence over Corey grows, Corey must dismantle the myth of his father's genius and confront the evil that lurks beneath it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGritty, visceral, and profoundly stirring, \u003ci\u003eThe War for Gloria\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a young man, straddling childhood and adulthood, whose yearning to protect his mother requires him to risk destroying his father. An indelible work from a strikingly original voice in American fiction.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eATTICUS LISH is the author of \u003ci\u003ePreparation for the Next Life, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the 2015 Pen\/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2016 Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8.11 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42697460187199,"sku":"9780525433217","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/7cd78401661a969ff06342016948fee5.webp?v=1765009301","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-war-for-gloria-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}