“An enjoyable and evocative portrait of a marriage” – A Long Island Story by Rick Gekoski

In an Afterword to A Long Island Story Rick Gekoski reveals that this novel is based on his memories of his parents’ relationship, an attempt to recreate the events in their marriage in 1953 but, “In the end, we make up our facts almost as comprehensively as our fictions.” As well as its autobiographical basis the novel could almost be an attempt to recreate a Richard Yates novel..." - James Doyle reviews A Long Island Story by Rick Gekoski

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