Things as they are
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Word Count
97,500 words, Guess
Page Count
390 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3410767M
- ISBN-10082942332X
- OCLC Control Number61687717
- Library of Congress Control Number2005026795
- LibraryThing1025043
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- Goodreads725529
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3515.O6583 T48 2006
Description
" ... one of the most perfect books I have ever read. In an American Eden, a boy grows up, experiencing glory and horror and sin, with the suffering and sorrow it entails ..." Anne Fremantle " ... poignantly renders the 'confusion called childhood' -- its fears and terrors, its half-innocent delights, its intimations realized beyond words -- and renders all this with a lyric passion ..." Winfield Townley Scott.
Description
"Richard is a young boy growing up in turn-of-the-century upstate New York, sheltered in a loving Catholic family. His happy world consists largely of illusions. These are shattered as Richard learns about "things as they are"--a remorseless succession of encounters with the casual brutality of schoolboys, the faithlessness of adults, the silence of God, and the cruelty in his own heart. Yet Paul Horgan finds courage and beauty in the ruins of Richard's dream world. Hope is also part of "things as they are," and Horgan's subtle, powerful vision makes this classic tale of lost innocence a novel that resonates deeply in the soul" -- back cover.
Subjects
Genres
- Fiction.
Series Statement
- Loyola classics series
Other Editions
- Things as they are
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