The Ninth Hour
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
From National Book Award-winning author Alice McDermott, this is a portrait of the Irish-American experience in the 1940s and 1950s. Set in Catholic Brooklyn, The Ninth Hour is a story of immigrants, societal expectations, suicide, love, and forgiveness....
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From National Book Award-winning author Alice McDermott, this is a portrait of the Irish-American experience in the 1940s and 1950s. Set in Catholic Brooklyn, The Ninth Hour is a story of immigrants, societal expectations, suicide, love, and forgiveness. Its a crowning achievement for one of Americas finest literary writers.
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Alice McDermott
Alice McDermott is the author of six previous novels, including After This; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; At Weddings and Wakes; and Someone--all published by FSG. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alice McDermott
- 2017, 240 Seiten, Maße: 14,4 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan US
- ISBN-10: 0374280142
- ISBN-13: 9780374280147
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
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