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ZIN Product Number: 10068567
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 262 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0312289480
Release Date: Jan 6, 2002
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
"It's 1978 and a typical January day in Minnesota's Twin Cities - except for Kevin Doyle, whose mother died two years ago when her car plunged into the icy waters of the Upper Mississippi. A high school senior, Kevin is a marginal student obsessed with keggers, rock and roll, maintaining his place in the pecking order of high school males, and - unbeknownst to anyone else - a boy in his school with thick eyelashes and a bad attitude. In the past two years, Kevin's relationship with his father, Patrick, has grown increasingly distant, and as lonely women vie for his father's attention, Kevin discovers Patrick's own closely guarded secret: At the time of his wife's death, he had planned to abandon his family for another woman. More disturbing, his mother's death may well have been a suicide, not an accident." Fanning the flames of familial discontent is Kevin's aunt Nora, a belligerent and fiercely religious Irish immigrant who has never liked her brother-in-law and blames him for the death of her sister. In the coming year, a series of painful truths and closely guarded secrets threatens to shatter the tentative bonds between father and son and wreak havoc on the lives of those nearest to them both.
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This summer's HOTTEST read!
-- Babs in Minnesota, July 25, 2002
Also Recommended: 'A Brief History of the Flood' -- Jean Harfenist; 'Your Oasis on Flame Lake' -- Lorna Landvik;'At Swim, Two Boys' -- Jamie O'Neill
This tale needs a sequel....
-- Bill, July 18, 2002
Superlative fiction
-- Caroline, a voracious reader, May 20, 2002
A TRIUMPH!
-- Paul, July 8, 2002
Also Recommended: THROUGH THE RUINS by Stephen M. Hart - A quiet novel about a man who's wife discovers her husband is gay.
See this author live and in person
-- Sarah Anderson, May 14, 2002
Also Recommended: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou; The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
The Year of Ice is a terrific bildungsroman of deep passions, family tragedy, and sensuality, told with a great deal of humor. Brian's intimate and honest voice will win him many adoring readers.
— Josip Novakovich, American Book Award and Midland Prize winner —Josip Novakovich
With intelligence, empathy, and just the right dose of humor, Brian Malloy completely immerses us in the world of an ordinary boy going through the very extraordinary process of living his eighteenth year. In Kevin Doyle, Malloy gives us a gritty, witty, and utterly engrossing portrait of a young man.
— Anne Ursu, author of Spilling Clarence, a Barnes & Noble Discover pick —Anne Ursu
"Brian Malloy has a keen sense of time and place, of humor and character and most importantly, Brian Malloy has a big heart and it reveals itself on every single page of this fine novel.
— author of Patty Jane's House of Curl and Your Oasis on Flame Lake —Lorna Landvik
The Year of Ice will surprise and move you. It's darkly brilliant, treacherously funny, absolutely convincing. All the old, familiar ache of throttled desire is there, but rendered so sharply that it becomes bracingly new again. This is a debut to heed, a writer to cherish.
— Paul Russell, author of The Coming Storm —Paul Russell
With his sharp, native instinct and determination, Kevin Doyle, the smart-assed boy-wonder of Brian Malloy's debut novel, is the gay Augie March of Minneapolis in the 1970's.
— Bart Schneider, founding editor of The Hungry Mind Review and author of the novels Blue Bossa and Secret Love —Bart Schneider
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