The ninth hour / Alice McDermott.
Record details
- ISBN: 0374280142
- ISBN: 9781250192745 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 247 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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Subject: | Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > 20th century > Fiction. Irish Americans > Fiction. Widows > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 18 of 19 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Valemount Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 19 total copies.
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- Baker & Taylor
A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early 20th-century Catholic Brooklyn. By the National Book Award-winning author ofCharming Billy . - Baker & Taylor
A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early twentieth-century Catholic Brooklyn. - McMillan Palgrave
Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction
New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2017
The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction 2017
The Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Novels of 2017
Time Magazine's Top 10 Novels of 2017
NPR's Best Books of 2017
Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction & Best Historical Fiction of 2017
Library Journal's Top 10 Novels of 2017
Barnes & Noble's 25 Best Fiction Books of 2017
A magnificent new novel from one of Americaâs finest writersâa powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn.
On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to proveâto the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his pregnant wifeââthat the hours of his life belong to himself alone.â In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child.
We begin deep inside Catholic Brooklyn, in the early part of the twentieth century. Decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the manâs brief existence. Yet his suicide, although never spoken of, reverberates through many lives and over the decades testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations.
The characters we meet, from Sally, the unborn baby at the beginning of the novel, who becomes the center of the story to the nuns whose personalities we come to know and love to the neighborhood families with whose lives they are entwined, are all rendered with extraordinary sympathy and McDermottâs trademark lucidity and intelligence. Alice McDermottâs The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement by one of the premiere writers at work in America today. - McMillan Palgrave
A magnificent new novel from one of Americaâs finest writersâa powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn.