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THE NINTH HOUR
On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to proveto the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering pregnant wifethat the hours of his life belong to himself alone. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun and Little 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, although never spoken of, reverberates through many livestesting the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations.
Rendered with remarkable lucidity and intelligence, The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today.
Alice McDermott is the author of six previous novels, including After This; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; At Weddings and Wakes; That Night; and Someone. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University.
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, although never spoken of, reverberates through many livestesting the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations.
Rendered with remarkable lucidity and intelligence, The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today.
Alice McDermott is the author of six previous novels, including After This; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; At Weddings and Wakes; That Night; and Someone. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University.
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Published 2017-09-01 by Farrar Straus Giroux |