The War for Gloria

Author: Atticus Lish Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Corey Goltz grows up in working-class Boston as the only child of Gloria, whose intellectual ambitions were derailed early. Corey, restless, dreams of a great adventure. Instead, when he is fifteen, Gloria is diagnosed with ALS and, too late, his estranged father, Leonard - a man of great charisma and deep resentments - reenters the picture. Determined to be his mother's hero at any cost, Corey begins shouldering responsibility for her...Read more