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Sep 19, 2017 · The Ninth Hour. Alice McDermott. 3.59. 17,765 ratings2,361 reviews. A magnificent new novel from one of America’s finest writers—a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn.
Sep 19, 2017 · A magnificent new novel from one of America’s finest writers―a 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.
Oct 2, 2017 · In “The Ninth Hour,” Alice McDermott has taken the risk of writing about nuns, and the risk has been more than worth it. Known and admired for her portrayal of Irish-American family life, she has...
“The Ninth Hour is a stunning and intimate depiction of an era that has passed, all-too-easily, from reality to memory, reminding us that the uncomfortably personal has existed long before us, and will continue long afterwards.”
Aug 21, 2017 · A magnificent new novel from one of America’s finest writers—a 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 a gas tap in his Brooklyn.
The Ninth Hour. Alice McDermott. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018 - Fiction - 247 pages. WINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZEONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP TEN...
From National Book Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Alice McDermott, The Ninth Hour is the critically-acclaimed “haunting and vivid portrait of an Irish Catholic clan in early twentieth century America” (The Associated Press).
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Named a best book of the year by NPR, The New York Times, and more. “A haunting and vivid portrait of an Irish Catholic clan in early twentieth century America.” —The Associated Press. “Marvelously evocative.” ―Mary Gordon, The New York Times Book Review. Order Your Copy Now.
Oct 19, 2017 · In prose of startling radiance and precision, Alice McDermott tells a story that is at once wholly individual and universal in its understanding of the human...
Sep 19, 2017 · The Ninth Hour: A Novel. Alice McDermott. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Sep 19, 2017 - Fiction - 256 pages. A magnificent new novel from one of America’s finest writers — a powerfully...
