The ninth hour
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2017].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
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247 pages ; 22 cm
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Main Library - Adult
Fiction McDermott, A
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Fiction McDermott, A
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Fiction McDermott, A
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Fiction McDermott, A
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2017].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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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.
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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 and his unborn child. His suicide reverberates over the decades as decorum, superstition and shame collude to erase the man's brief existence.
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