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01919aam a2200361 i 4500 001 0F3AEE4C9C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190702010117 008 180827s2019 enk b 000 f eng c 020 $a 1786496720 020 $a 9781786496720 020 $a 1786496712 020 $a 9781786496713 035 $a (OCoLC)1086581081 040 $a PUL $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d OCLCF $d AU@ $d OCLCO $d NZAUC $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ma 050 4 $a PR6058 I247 N37 2019 100 1 $a Hickey, Christine Dwyer $e author. 245 14 $a The narrow land / $c Christine Dwyer Hickey. 264 1 $a London : $b Atlantic Books, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd., $c 2019. 300 $a 370 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a 1950: late summer season on Cape Cod. Michael, a ten-year-old boy, is spending the summer with Richie and his glamorous but troubled mother. Left to their own devices, the boys meet a couple living nearby - the artists Jo and Edward Hopper - and an unlikely friendship is forged. She, volatile, passionate and often irrational, suffers bouts of obsessive sexual jealousy. He, withdrawn and unwell, depressed by his inability to work, becomes besotted by Richie's frail and beautiful Aunt Katherine who has not long to live - an infatuation he shares with young Michael. A novel of loneliness and regret, the legacy of World War II and the ever-changing concept of the American Dream. 600 10 $a Hopper, Edward, $d 1882-1967 $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Hopper, Jo N. $q (Josephine Nivison), $d 1883-1968 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Nineteen fifties $v Fiction. 650 0 $a American Dream $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Cape Cod (Mass.) $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20191105023505.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0F3AEE4C9C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search