by Keith Ridgway · ISBN 9782264046819
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«Mauvaise pente» is Keith Ridgway's novel published by 10/18 in paperback (379 pages, in French).
Grace, an abused woman, one day decides to stop being one and kills her husband. In an Ireland shocked by the case of a teenager who was denied an abortion, her story becomes an emblem. Her homosexual son betrays her: he cannot tolerate her emancipation while he lives on the margins.
The novel won the Prix Femina Étranger in 2001. It was originally published in English as The Long Falling (1998) and appears in the collection 10/18 Domaine étranger No. 4232.
For readers of contemporary Irish fiction and those looking for family dramas with an LGBT perspective and social criticism.
Keith Ridgway is an Irish novelist and short story writer. He has won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Prix Femina Etranger, the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger, the O. Henry Award, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
