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The Ninth Hour. Alice McDermott, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. ISBN Summary. A magnificent new novel from one of America’s finest writers—a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn. Book Summary. Rendered with remarkable lucidity and intelligence, Alice McDermott's The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today. 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 . Alice McDermott’s The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement by one of the premiere writers at work in America today. Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Religion. pages, Hardcover. First published Septem/5(K).

Alice McDermott's The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement by one of the premiere writers at work in America today. Review Quotes "McDermott has extended her range and deepened it, allowing for more darkness, more generous lashings of the spiritual Vivid and arresting Marvelously evocative." --Mary Gordon, The New York Times Book Review. Alice McDermott's The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement by one of the premiere writers at work in America today. Previous page. Print length. pages. Language. English. Publisher. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Publication date. Septem. Dimensions. x x inches. ISBN "The Ninth Hour" Alice McDermott | Picador Farrar, Straus And Giroux pages - $ Langan's Book Mark: 4/4 stars. This bold novel, "The Ninth Hour", by Alice McDermott may be too.

The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott review – the heartlessness and consolations of Catholicism. Set in early 20th-century Brooklyn, this is an atmospheric evocation of sensuality and self. From National Book Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Alice McDermott, The Ninth Hour is the critically-acclaimed “haunting 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 Year A Kirkus Prize Finalist. The Ninth Hour is a story with the simple grace of a votive candle in a dark church." —Time Magazine "The Ninth Hour, like Colm Toíbín's Brooklyn, evokes a narrowly confined, simpler, largely bygone world. But McDermott also addresses big, universal questions — about what constitutes a good life, and about how to live with the knowledge of "that stillness, that inconsequence, that feral smell of death.".