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Absolution by Alice McDermott
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Absolution is one of the finest contemporary novels I've read. It is a moral masterpiece.'ANN PATCHETT'Damning and dazzling, this is the story of a Vietnam we never got in history class' OPRAH DAILY'A masterful American writer'MAIL ON SUNDAYYou have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. ...Show more
After This by Alice McDermott
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Alice McDermott's masterful novel is a portrait of a working-class American family living through the tumultuous middle decades of the twentieth century. While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately intoxicating and bitter fruits of the sexual revolution, their older brother, Jacob, finds himself ...Show more
Someone by Alice McDermott
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'At seven, I was a shy child, and comical-looking, with a round flat face and black slits for eyes, thick glasses, black bangs, a straight and serious mouth - a little girl cartoon. With my heart pinned to my father's sleeve' Someone begins on the stoop of a Brooklyn apartment building where Marie is wa ...Show more
Someone (HB) by Alice McDermott
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A fully realized portrait of one woman's life in all its complexity, by the National Book Award-winning author An ordinary life--its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion--lived by an ordinary woman: this is the subject of "Someone," Alice McDermott's extraordin ...Show more
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 pregnant wife--"that the hours of his life belong to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. S ...Show more
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