The ninth hour
(Large Type)
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361 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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First Floor Large Type Books
LT Fic MCDERMO
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LT Fic MCDERMO
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Format
Large Print
Street Date
1709
Language
English
UPC
DLW165296
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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 wife--"that the hours of his life belong to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, a Little Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child. In Catholic Brooklyn, in the early part of the twentieth century, decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the man's brief existence, and yet his suicide, although never spoken of, reverberates through many lives--testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
McDermott, A. (2017). The ninth hour (Large print edition.). Thorndike Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McDermott, Alice. 2017. The Ninth Hour. Thorndike Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McDermott, Alice. The Ninth Hour Thorndike Press, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)McDermott, Alice. The Ninth Hour Large print edition., Thorndike Press, 2017.
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