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The Resource The ninth hour, Alice McDermott
The ninth hour, Alice McDermott
Resource Information
The item The ninth hour, Alice McDermott represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch (Open with Limited Services).This item is available to borrow from 7 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The ninth hour, Alice McDermott represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch (Open with Limited Services).
This item is available to borrow from 7 library branches.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 247 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374280147
- Label
- The ninth hour
- Title
- The ninth hour
- Statement of responsibility
- Alice McDermott
- Title variation
- 9th hour
- Subject
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- Domestic fiction
- Historical fiction
- Immigrants -- New York (State) | New York -- Social conditions | History -- Fiction
- Irish -- United States -- Fiction
- Irish Americans -- Fiction
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Suicide -- Fiction
- Widows -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- Nuns -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- Catholics -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McDermott, Alice
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3563.C355
- LC item number
- N56 2017b
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Irish
- Immigrants
- Irish Americans
- Catholics
- Suicide
- Widows
- Nuns
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Label
- The ninth hour, Alice McDermott
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 247 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374280147
- Lccn
- 2017011508
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- ocn968557357
- (OCoLC)968557357
- Label
- The ninth hour, Alice McDermott
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 247 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374280147
- Lccn
- 2017011508
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- ocn968557357
- (OCoLC)968557357
Subject
- Domestic fiction
- Historical fiction
- Immigrants -- New York (State) | New York -- Social conditions | History -- Fiction
- Irish -- United States -- Fiction
- Irish Americans -- Fiction
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Suicide -- Fiction
- Widows -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- Nuns -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- Catholics -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
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Vancouver Public Library, West Point Grey Branch (Open with Limited Services)Borrow it4480 West 10th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V6R 2H9, CA49.26369 -123.208342
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