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02233aam a2200361Mi 4500 001 4D39177C323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211021010114 007 tb 008 210719s2021 xx ed 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0593414438 020 $a 9780593414439 035 $a (OCoLC)1272903302 040 $a TOH $b eng $c TOH $d CNNWP $d BDX $d OCLCO $d ORX $d IOU $d SILO 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Lish, Atticus, $e author. 245 14 $a The war for Gloria / $c Atticus Lish. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Random House Large Print, $c 2021. 300 $a 704 pages (large print) ; $c 24 cm 340 $n large print $2 rda 520 $a Corey 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. Instead, 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. Gritty, visceral, and profoundly stirring, The War for Gloria 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. 650 0 $a Fathers and sons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Abusive men $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers and sons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis $x Patients $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 941 $a 2 945 $a lpt 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20221018011549.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211021010731.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4D39177C323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search