Alice McDermott

Broschiertes Buch

The Ninth Hour

Beschreibung

In Catholic Brooklyn in the early part of the twentieth century, decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase a 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.

Autor

Alice McDermott is the author of nine novels, all published by FSG, including Charming Billy, winner of the National Book Award, and That Night , At Weddings and Wakes, and After This, which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of the essay collection What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Harper¿s Magazine, and other publications. She lives outside Washington, DC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 142mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 223g
• ISBN-13: 9781250192745
• ISBN-10: 1250192749
• Artikelnr.: 50656969

Rezensionen

Alongside her marvellous descriptions of unbeautiful bodies is an intense lyricism . McDermott is so attentive to atmospheres, glances, the quietest moments that provoke profound shifts in a character's world ... Her new book unfolds without sentimentality or pity, but with a frankness of gaze that elevates her characters rather than diminishes them. Mercy, it seems, doesn't always take the forms we might imagine Molly McCloskey Guardian 20171021