The ninth hour
Record details
- ISBN: 0374280142 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780374280147 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780374280147
- ISBN: 0374280142
- ISBN: 9780374280147 : HRD
- ISBN: 0374280142 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780374280147 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0374280142 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780374712174 (ebook)
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Physical Description:
247 pages ; 22 cm
regular print
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | On a dim winter afternoon in Catholic Brooklyn, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. 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. His suicide reverberates over the decades as decorum, superstition and shame collude to erase the man's brief existence. |
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Genre: | Historical fiction. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 55 of 57 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rowayton Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 57 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Rowayton Library | F MCD (Text) | 33625122811412 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Electronic resources
Author Notes
The Ninth Hour : A Novel
Alice McDermott was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 27, 1953. She received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Oswego in 1975 and an M.A. from the University of New Hampshire in 1978. After graduating college, she got a job reading unsolicited manuscripts for Redbook magazine and did some freelance reading for Esquire. She has taught writing at American University, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of California at San Diego. Currently, she is the Writing Seminars Professor of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Department. Her short stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications including Ms., Redbook, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Seventeen, the New York Times and the Washington Post. She has written several novels including A Bigamist's Daughter, At Weddings and Wakes, Child of My Heart, After This, Someone, and The Ninth Hour. That Night was made into a film starring C. Thomas Howell and Juliette Lewis in 1992. She has won several awards including the National Book Award for fiction in 1998 for Charming Billy, a Whiting Writers Award, and the 2008 Corrington Award for Literature. (Bowker Author Biography)