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Oct 31, 2023 · A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two young American wives form a wary alliance. Tricia is a starry-eyed newlywed, married to a rising oil engineer “on loan” to US Navy Intelligence.
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Oct 30, 2023 · McDermott's latest novel, which centers on two American women who meet in Saigon in 1963, explores themes of religion, humility and insistent charitable intervention.
Oct 27, 2023 · What happens when two American women attempt to help the people of Saigon? In Alice McDermott’s new novel, the answer is complicated.
Oct 31, 2023 · A virtuosic new novel from Alice McDermott, one of our most observant, most affecting writers, about folly and grace, obligation, sacrifice, and, finally, the quest for absolution in a broken world. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
Oct 31, 2023 · Absolution by Alice McDermott turns a female lens on America’s early intervention in Vietnam. The novel is told from dual retrospectives: Patricia, now an elderly widow, and Rainey, now a middle-aged daughter, both members of military-industrial families posted to Saigon in 1963.
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Oct 31, 2023 · A virtuosic new novel from Alice McDermott, one of our most observant, most affecting writers, about folly and grace, obligation, sacrifice, and, finally, the quest for absolution in a broken world.
Oct 31, 2023 · Alice McDermott’s ‘Absolution’ revisits colonial folly in Vietnam. The National Book Award winner rewinds the clock 60 years in this crystalline, searching homage to Graham Greene’s ‘The...
