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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
After this After this Alice McDermott A portrait of an American family during the middle decades of the twentieth century evokes the social, spiritual, and political turmoil of the era as seen through the experiences of a middle-class co… OL15857615W
A bigamist's daughter A bigamist's daughter Alice McDermott "The New York Times Bestselling Author of After This and Charming Billy. Elizabeth Connelly, editor at a New York vanity press, sells the dream of publication (admittedly, to writers of questionable … OL16298970W
The ninth hour The ninth hour Alice McDermott On a dim winter afternoon, 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 direc… OL19662923W
The ninth hour The ninth hour Alice McDermott 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… OL19721883W
The ninth hour The ninth hour Alice McDermott On a dim winter afternoon, 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 direc… OL19722458W
After This After This Alice McDermott On a wild, windy April day in Manhattan, when Mary first meets John Keane, she cannot know what lies ahead of her. A marriage, a fleeting season of romance, and the birth of four children will bring … OL1980253W
A bigamist's daughter A bigamist's daughter Alice McDermott Elizabeth Connelly, an editor at a vanity press, feels as though she is sleepwalking through life. OL1980254W
Someone Someone Alice McDermott Someone begins on the stoop of a Brooklyn apartment building where Marie is waiting for her father to come home from work. It is the 1920s and in her Irish-American enclave the stories of her neighbo… OL20935454W
Kind naar mijn hart Kind naar mijn hart Alice McDermott Een knap Amerikaanse meisje van vijftien is enerzijds haar aantrekkingskracht voor het andere geslacht aan het ontdekken, maar is anderzijds ook nog vaak een kind. OL24836557W