The Ninth Hour - Couverture souple

McDermott, Alice

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1408854635 ISBN 13 : 9781408854631

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alice McDermott's novels include Someone, The Ninth Hour, After This, Child of My Heart, Charming Billy, At Weddings and Wakes, That Night and A Bigamist's Daughter. She won the National Book Award, has been Pulitzer Prize finalist three times and been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She lives with her family outside Washington DC.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408854635
• ISBN 13: 9781408854631
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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