The War for Gloria

Gloria Goltz's intellectual ambitions are derailed when she meets Leonard, who claims to hold the key to unlocking her potential. After making her pregnant, he disappears, and her son Corey grows up without a father. When Gloria is diagnosed with motor neuron disease, her estranged father returns, and Corey must dismantle the myth of his father's genius and confront the evil that lurks beneath it.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 448 pages
Publication date: 06 April 2023
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

A renowned writer, entirely on his own account, Observer Stunningly good Guardian Gloria Goltz's intellectual ambitions are derailed when she meets Leonard at college. Self-taught, blue-collar, possessing an aggressive intelligence, Leonard claims to hold the key to unlocking her potential. After making her pregnant, he disappears. Her son Corey grows up without a father, looking for a male role model—and restless, dreaming of a great adventure. Instead, when Corey is fifteen, Gloria is diagnosed with motor neuron disease, and his estranged father, this man of domineering charisma and dubious moral character, returns. 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 progresses. And as Leonard's influence over son and mother grows, Corey must dismantle the myth of his father's genius and confront the evil that lurks beneath it. Atticus Lish won a Pen/Faulkner award for his debut Preparation for the Next Life, a novel described as the finest and most unsentimental love story of the new decade in The New York Times. His second novel confirms Lish as a beguiling storyteller and a prose stylist of extraordinary emotional reach and beauty.

Weight: 350g
Dimension: 130 x 198 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800812659
Edition number: Main