The Story of the Night

The Story of the Night
Paperback edition book cover
Author	Colm Tóibín
Country	Ireland
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Picador
Publication date	27 September 1996
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	320 pp
ISBN	0-330-34017-4 (hardback edition) & ISBN 0-330-34018-2 (paperback edition)
OCLC	36712956
Dewey Decimal	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.

Awards and nominations

It won the Ferro-Grumley Award for the "Best Gay Novel of 1997".

Works by Colm Tóibín

Novels	The South (1990) The Heather Blazing (1992) The Story of the Night (1996) The Blackwater Lightship (1999) The Master (2004) Brooklyn (2009) The Testament of Mary (2012) Nora Webster (2014)

Essay collections	Love in a Dark Time (2002) New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers & Their Families (2012)

Short story collections	Mothers and Sons (2006) The Empty Family (2010)

Plays	Beauty in a Broken Place (2004)

Poetry	Cush Gap, 2007 (2011)

Non-fiction	Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border (1987) Homage to Barcelona (1990) The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (1994) Lady Gregory's Toothbrush (2002) The Use of Reason (2006)

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