McDermott, A: Ninth Hour
Autor Alice McDermotten Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 sep 2018
One of TIME Magazine's Top Ten Novels of the Year
A 2017 Kirkus Prize Finalist
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781250192745
ISBN-10: 1250192749
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 142 x 208 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: MACMILLAN USA
ISBN-10: 1250192749
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 142 x 208 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: MACMILLAN USA