The ninth hour
Large Print Book
Large print edition.
"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. 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"--Provided by the publisher.
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| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford Free Library | LARGE PRINT M (Text) Large Print |
31002150684289 |
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| Chappaqua Library | LARGE PRINT FICTION MCDERMOTT (Text) Large Print |
31005400011492 |
Checked out 04/23/2024 |
| Harrison Public Library | LP MCDERMOTT, A. (Text) Large Print |
31010300130509 |
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| Harrison West Harrison Branch Library | LP MCDERMOTT, A. (Text) Large Print |
31010400059210 |
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| Irvington Public Library | LARGE PRINT MCDERMOTT (Text) Large Print |
31012154348245 |
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| New Rochelle Public Library | LP MCDERMOTT (Text) Large Print |
31019156147194 |
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| Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library | LARGE PRINT MCDERMOTT (Text) Large Print |
31025152391785 |
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| Pound Ridge Library District | LARGE PRINT MCDERMOTT (Text) Large Print |
31026150942546 |
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| Rye Osborn Branch Library | LP MCDERMOTT ADAMS (Text) New Book |
31028200079683 |
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| Scarsdale Public Library | LG PT FICTION (Text) Large Print |
31029154224721 |
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