The ninth hour
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Grand Canyon Community Library - Fiction
F MCDERMOTT ALICE
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F MCDERMOTT ALICE
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247 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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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 appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child. We begin deep inside Catholic Brooklyn, in the early part of the twentieth century. Decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the man's brief existence. Yet his suicide, although never spoken of, reverberates through many lives and over the decades testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
McDermott, A. (2017). The ninth hour (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McDermott, Alice. 2017. The Ninth Hour. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McDermott, Alice. The Ninth Hour Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)McDermott, Alice. The Ninth Hour First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
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