TY - BOOK AU - Hickey,Christine Dwyer TI - The narrow land SN - 9781786496744 PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - Atlantic Books KW - Hopper, Edward, KW - Hopper, Jo N. KW - American Dream KW - Fiction KW - Nineteen fifties KW - fast KW - FICTION / General KW - bisacsh KW - Cape Cod (Mass.) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Massachusetts KW - Cape Cod N1 - First published: 2019 N2 - 1950: late summer season on Cape Cod. Michael, a ten-year-old boy, is spending the summer with Richie and his glamorous but troubled mother. Left to their own devices, the boys meet a couple living nearby - the artists Jo and Edward Hopper - and an unlikely friendship is forged. She, volatile, passionate and often irrational, suffers bouts of obsessive sexual jealousy. He, withdrawn and unwell, depressed by his inability to work, becomes besotted by Richie's frail and beautiful Aunt Katherine who has not long to live - an infatuation he shares with young Michael. A novel of loneliness and regret, the legacy of World War II and the ever-changing concept of the American Dream ER -