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Paperback edition book cover
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| Author | Colm Tóibín |
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| Country | Ireland |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Picador |
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Publication date
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27 September 1996 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 320 pp |
| ISBN | (hardback edition) & (paperback edition) |
| OCLC | 36712956 |
| 823/.914 21 | |
| LC Class | PR6070.O455 S76 1996 |
The Story of the Night is a novel by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín, set in Argentina in the 1980s where the main character, Richard, was born. Son of a British mother and a dead father, he must come to terms with the hidden story of his two countries now at war and his sexuality as he grows up.
It won the Ferro-Grumley Award for the "Best Gay Novel of 1997".