The ninth hour / Alice McDermott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDermott, Alice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--20th century--Fiction.

Irish Americans--Fiction.

Irish Americans.

Irish.

Nuns.

Widows.

Immigrants.

New York (State)--New York.

Widows--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Nuns--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Irish--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Local Subjects:

Nuns--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Widows--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

247 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

9th hour

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Summary:

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.

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.

ISBN:

9780374280147

0374280142

OCLC:

968557357