Alice McDermott

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The Ninth HourPaperback, 4 September 2018

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Print Length
256 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Picador USA
Date Published
4 Sep 2018
ISBN-10
1250192749
ISBN-13
9781250192745

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From National Book Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Alice McDermott, The Ninth Hour is the critically-acclaimed "haunting and vivid portrait of an Irish Catholic clan in early twentieth century America" (The Associated Press).
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One of TIME Magazine's Top Ten Novels of the Year
A 2017 Kirkus Prize Finalist
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book
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On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens a gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove--to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his pregnant wife--that "the hours of his life . . . belonged to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Saviour, an aging nun, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child.

In Catholic Brooklyn in the early part of the twentieth century, decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the man's brief existence, and yet his suicide, though never spoken of, reverberates through many lives--testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations. Rendered with remarkable delicacy, heart, and intelligence, Alice McDermott's The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today.

Product Details

Author:
Alice McDermott
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
4 September 2018
Dimensions:
20.57 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm
Genre:
Family
ISBN-10:
1250192749
ISBN-13:
9781250192745
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
256
Publisher:
Weight:
226.8 gm

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