The Ninth Hour: Alice McDermott - Softcover

McDermott, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408854635 ISBN 13: 9781408854631

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018

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Alongside her marvellous descriptions of unbeautiful bodies is an intense lyricism . McDermott is so attentive to atmospheres, glances, the quietest moments that provoke profound shifts in a character's world ... Her new book unfolds without sentimentality or pity, but with a frankness of gaze that elevates her characters rather than diminishes them. Mercy, it seems, doesn't always take the forms we might imagine (Molly McCloskey Guardian 2017-10-21)

Beautifully written, heart-wrenching and funny by turns, and offers a deeply vivid and authentic portrayal of Brooklyn long before its hipsters arrived (Sunday Times 2017-11-19)

Dealing in simple lives and small dramas, the prose displays an unerring sense of detail, mood, and emotion. A masterful American writer at her best (Jeffrey Burke Mail on Sunday 2017-10-01)

From the perfect opening sentence of this latest book by the American Pulitzer Prize finalist, you know you are in safe hands . McDermott depicts with sensuous intensity the texture of lives lived and the intersection of faith and sin in a remarkable novel marked by small, but transformative, acts of grace (Daily Mail 2017-10-20)

She is a poet of corporeal description . It's the way she marries the spirit to the physical world that make her work transcendent. The Ninth Hour is a story with the simple grace of a votive candle in a dark church (Sarah Begley Time 2017-10-02)

Superb and masterful . Powerful and sublime ... Her sentences burn on the page (Washington Post 2017-09-14)

This is a very fine novel and its focus on the quietly heroic lives of Catholic women in early twentieth-century Brooklyn enriches both McDermott's oeuvre and contemporary fiction more generally (Sinead Moynihan Irish Times 2017-10-21)

Ms. McDermott has once again managed a marvellous literary feat (Wall Street Journal 2017-09-15)

A tour de force ... McDermott is a virtuoso of language and image, allusion and reflection, reference and symbol ... McDermott once again demonstrates her expansively attentive literary care and its quiet power . Reminds us of the pleasures of literary fiction and its power to illuminate lives and worlds (Boston Globe 2017-09-14)

Ramshackle, impoverished Brooklyn is evoked with confidence and precision (Claire Lowdon Spectator 2017-10-28)

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WINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2017

From the National Book Award-winning author comes a luminous, deeply humane novel about three generations of an Irish immigrant family in 1940s and 1950s Brooklyn - for those who love Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright and Anne Tyler

On a dim winter afternoon in a Brooklyn tenement, a young Irish immigrant unhooks the oven gas, and inhales. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an ageing nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and unborn child.

This is how Sally comes to grow up in the convent laundry, amidst the crank of the wringer and the hiss of the iron, her universe governed by the strange, kind and mysterious Little Nursing Sisters of the Sick Poor. But although superstition and shame will collude to erase Sally's father's brief existence, his suicide will reverberate through many lives and over many decades. And when she comes of age, Sally will commit her own irrevocable deed, sacrificing her grace at the altar of human love.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1408854635
• ISBN 13: 9781408854631
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256