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Title	:	The Year of Ice
Author	:	Brian Malloy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	October 11th 2003 by St. Martin's Griffin (first published June 30th 2002)
Categories	:	LGBT. Young Adult. Fiction. Gay. Romance. M M Romance

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It is 1978 in the Twin Cities, and Kevin Doyle, a high school senior, is a marginal student in love with keggers, rock and roll, and--unbeknownst to anyone else--a boy in his class with thick eyelashes and a bad attitude. His mother Eileen died two years earlier when her car plunged into the icy waters of the Mississippi River, and since then Kevin's relationship with his father Patrick has become increasingly distant. As lonely women vie for his father's attention, Kevin discovers Patrick's own closely guarded secret: he had planned to abandon his family for another woman. More disturbingly, his mother's death may well have been a suicide, not an accident. Complicating the family dynamic is the constant meddling of Kevin's outspoken Aunt Nora--who will never forgive Patrick for Eileen's death--along with Patrick's inability to stay single for very long. His loyalties divided between his father and his aunt, between his internal reality and his public persona, Kevin is forced to accept his gay identity and reevaluate his notions of family and love as painful truths emerge about both.

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Original Title:	The Year of Ice
ISBN:	0312313691 (ISBN13: 9780312313692)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Minneapolis, Minnesota,1978(United States)
Literary Awards:	ALA Alex Award (2003)

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A lot going on with The Year of Ice. Kevin Doyle is a senior in high school, but two years ago, on his 16th birthday, he was attending his mother's funeral. The theme of "ice" is well thought out, and an early reference to Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" leads Kevin to search for different meanings of this poem through-out.Great read

"The Year of Ice" revolves around a 18-year-old and tells his experiences in the first person perspective in a single year, 1978. It's a novel about struggles on family matters, sexuality and other typical teenage as well adult problems.The writing is beautifully done, and it lets the story absorb me as I read the book. The POV on Kevin Doyle gives the story a focus, and we witness events that in one way or another, relates to the coming of age of a not-so-ordinary teenage boy, one with an

This story is set in 1978 and told from the POV of Kevin who is 18 years old. He's in High School and trying his best to hide the fact that he is gay, even going to the trouble of having a girlfriend so that his friends don't suspect him. His mother died and as time goes on, secrets are discovered and he finds out things about his father that he doesn't like. Kevin's narration is hilarious and you get to hear everything he thinks, followed by the censored version that he says out loud. My only

Kevin Doyle is an eighteen year old high school senior from Minneapolis. It is 1978, and Kevin lives at home with his widowed father. Kevin's mother died two years prior in a tragic automobile accident when her car hit a patch of ice and careened off the highway over an embankment into the Mississippi River.Kevin has a secret which he shares with no one...no one except his imaginary boyfriend Jon. Actually Jon is a real person that goes to school with Kevin, but the real Jon is straight. So

Fantastic book. The writing was stellar, and I couldn't put it down. I loved the voice. Kevin is a fantastic character, and his grief and angst and desire to be loved just jumped off the page. The narrative voice made me laugh out loud several times. Seriously, couldn't put it down. I was reading it at 3:30am this morning. That said, the ending doesn't really resolve anything. It's like reading a narrative of a year of someone's life. It's vivid and compelling and fascinating to read, but don't

I don't want to rave too much about this book, lest I hype it up too much for a potential reader. But I will say that I really took an intense personal liking to this book for numerous reasons. The writing is excellent. It is one of the best written coming-of-age story about a gay boy that I've encountered. I found myself relating so naturally to the protagonist, as when he thinks about his high school crush, "standing next to my locker. I don't know how to look at him anymore. I'm afraid he'll

Author Brian Malloy introduces the reader to Minnesota high school athlete Kevin Doyle, who is having as bad a senior year as Stephen Kings Carrie White. His mother, Eileen, was killed in a car accident; his father--who he never really got along with in the first place--has taken to drowning his sorrows; neighborhood women seeking entry constantly show up at his house bearing food, and he has an unrelenting crush on a male classmate, Jon, with whom he cant even manage to fake a friendship. The