The Resource The ninth hour, Alice McDermott
The ninth hour, Alice McDermott
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The item The ninth hour, Alice McDermott represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
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The item The ninth hour, Alice McDermott represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove-to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife -- that the hours of his life belong to himself alone. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, a 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 lives-testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 247 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374280147
- Label
- The ninth hour
- Title
- The ninth hour
- Statement of responsibility
- Alice McDermott
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove-to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife -- that the hours of his life belong to himself alone. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, a 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 lives-testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McDermott, Alice
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
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- Irish American families
- Immigrants
- Irish Americans
- Widows
- Nuns
- New York (N.Y.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The ninth hour, Alice McDermott
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p225987051
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 247 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780374280147
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The ninth hour, Alice McDermott
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p225987051
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 247 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780374280147
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
Subject
- Immigrants -- New York (State) | New York -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Irish American families -- New York (State) | New York -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Irish Americans -- Fiction
- Large type books
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Nuns -- Fiction
- Widows -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Historical fiction
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