The Narrow Land
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"A brilliant portrait... With a beguiling grace and a deceptive simplicity Christine Dwyer Hickey reminds us that the past is never far away - rather it constantly surrounds us suspends us haunts us." Colum McCann 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 He withdrawn and unwell depressed by his inability to work becomes besotted by Richies frail and beautiful Aunt Katherine who has not long to live - an infatuation he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.
