ISBN-13: 9781250192745
From National Book Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Alice McDermott, The Ninth Hour is the critically-acclaimedhaunting and vivid portrait of an Irish Catholic clan in early twentieth century America (The Associated Press).One of TIME Magazine's Top Ten Novels of the YearA 2017 Kirkus Prize FinalistA New York Times Book Review Notable Book On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens a gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to proveto the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his pregnant wifethatthe hours of his life . . . belonged to himself alone. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Saviour, an aging nun, a Little Nursing 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 mans brief existence, and yet his suicide, though 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 delicacy, heart, and intelligence, Alice McDermotts The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today.
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ISBN-13: 9781250192745
From National Book Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Alice McDermott, The Ninth Hour is the critically-acclaimedhaunting and vivid portrait of an Irish Catholic clan in early twentieth century America (The Associated Press).One of TIME Magazine's Top Ten Novels of the YearA 2017 Kirkus Prize FinalistA New York Times Book Review Notable Book On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens a gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to proveto the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his pregnant wifethatthe hours of his life . . . belonged to himself alone. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Saviour, an aging nun, a Little Nursing 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 mans brief existence, and yet his suicide, though 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 delicacy, heart, and intelligence, Alice McDermotts The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today.
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Hard Difficile
Durée
662 day(s) jour(s)
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