The Heart's Invisible Furies
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 961 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from, and over his many years will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more.
Series: Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice
Subjects:
Adoptees -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Gay men -- Fiction.
Pregnant teenagers -- Fiction.
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Ireland -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Adoptees -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Gay men -- Fiction.
Pregnant teenagers -- Fiction.
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Ireland -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781432843335
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"Originally published in the United Kingdom by Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, a Penguin Random House company, London."--Title page verso