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SUMMARY:Author Appearance: Alice McDermott
DESCRIPTION:Alice McDermott will sign her paperback copies of The Ninth Hour (Picador USA\, 2018) at Bards Alley on October 14\, at 2:00 pm.\n\n\n\n?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).\n\nOn a dim winter afternoon\, a young Irish immigrant opens a gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove to the subway bosses who have recently fired him\, to his pregnant wife that "the 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.\n\nIn 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\, though 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. Rendered with remarkable delicacy\, heart\, and intelligence\, Alice McDermott's The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today. ?\n\nALICE MCDERMOTT is the author of seven previous novels\, including After This\; Child of My Heart\; Charming Billy\, winner of the 1998 National Book Award\; At Weddings and Wakes\; and Someone. That Night\, At Weddings and Wakes\, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The New Yorker\, Harper's Magazine\, and elsewhere. She is the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University.\n\nThis event is free to attend with no reservation required.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Alice McDermott will sign her paperback copies of The Ninth Hour (Picador USA\, 2018) at Bards Alley on October 14\, at 2:00 pm.<br />\n<br />\n?From National Book Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Alice McDermott\, The Ninth Hour is the critically-acclaimed &ldquo\;haunting and vivid portrait of an Irish Catholic clan in early twentieth century America&rdquo\; (The Associated Press).</p>\n\n<p>On a dim winter afternoon\, a young Irish immigrant opens a gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove&mdash\;to the subway bosses who have recently fired him\, to his pregnant wife&mdash\;that &ldquo\;the hours of his life . . . belonged to himself alone.&rdquo\; 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.</p>\n\n<p>In Catholic Brooklyn in the early part of the twentieth century\, decorum\, superstition\, and shame collude to erase the man&rsquo\;s brief existence\, and yet his suicide\, though never spoken of\, reverberates through many lives&mdash\;testing 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 McDermott&rsquo\;s The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today. ?</p>\n\n<p>ALICE MCDERMOTT is the author of seven previous novels\, including After This\; Child of My Heart\; Charming Billy\, winner of the 1998 National Book Award\; At Weddings and Wakes\; and Someone. That Night\, At Weddings and Wakes\, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The New Yorker\, Harper&rsquo\;s Magazine\, and elsewhere. She is the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University.</p>\n\n<p>This event is free to attend with no reservation required.</p>\n
LOCATION:Bards Alley 110 Church Street NW Vienna\, VA 22180
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URL:http://viennabusiness.memberzone.com/events/details/author-appearance-alice-mcdermott-8276
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