Alice McDermott
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
On a dim winter afternoon in Catholic Brooklyn, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A young girl's astonishing, poignant first look into the turbulent heart of things
"I had in my care that summer four dogs, three cats, the Moran kids, Daisy, my eight-year-old cousin, and Flora, the toddler child of a local artist. There was also, for a while, a litter of wild rabbits, three of them, that had been left under our back steps..."
Alice McDermott's haunting and enchanting new work of fiction is narrated by a woman who was born beautiful....
3) Someone
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of a Brooklyn-born woman's life - her family, her neighborhood, her daily trials and triumphs - from childhood to old age"--Provided by the publisher.
4) After this
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alice McDermott's powerful new novel wittily captures the social, political and spiritual upheavals of the mid-twentieth century through the story of a family, and the changing world in which they live.
While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately intoxicating and bitter first fruits of the sexual revolution, their older, more tentative brother lags behind, until he finds himself on the way to Vietnam. Meanwhile, Clare, the youngest
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched "virtuoso of language and image" (Rebecca Steinitz, The Boston Globe)"--
7) Absolution
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award"--