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REVIEWS: The Ninth Hour
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The Washington Post
The Guardian
GoodReads
Book Companion
A magnificent new novel from one of America’s finest
writers—a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth
century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their
Irish-American community in Brooklyn. On a dim winter afternoon,
a young Irish immigrant opens a gas tap in his Brooklyn
tenement. He is determined to prove—to the subway bosses who
have recently fired him, to his pregnant wife—that “the hours of
his life . . . belonged to himself alone.” In the aftermath of
the fire that follows, Sister St. Saviour, an aging nun, a
Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to
direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child.
Rendered with remarkable delicacy, heart, and intelligence,
Alice McDermott’s The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of
one of the finest American writers at work today.
Characters: 37. Amazon rating: 4 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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