The Ninth Hour Contributor(s): McDermott, Alice (Author) |
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ISBN: 1432841505 ISBN-13: 9781432841508 Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print OUR PRICE: $34.19 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General |
Dewey: 813.54 |
LCCN: 2017034213 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" (1.10 lbs) |
Themes: - Topical - Family |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove--to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife--"that the hours of his life belong to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, a Little 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, although 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 lucidity and intelligence, Alice McDermott's The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today. |
Contributor Bio(s): McDermott, Alice: - Alice McDermott is the author of several novels, including After This; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; and At Weddings and Wakes, all published by FSG. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. McDermott lives with her family outside Washington, D.C. |