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At Weddings and Wakes

At Weddings and Wakes - Paperback

by Alice McDermott
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alice McDermottAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2023-05-02Pages:224
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250888365ISBN-10:1250888360UPC:9781250888365Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Sagas, Literary, Family LifeSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCCWAEFABH

Pulitzer Prize finalist At Weddings and Wakes is "a brilliant, highly complex, extraordinary piece of fiction" (Chicago Tribune)

Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia twice a week with her three children in tow, returning to the Brooklyn home where she grew up, and where her stepmother and unmarried sisters still live. The children quietly observe Aunt Veronica, who drowns her sorrows in drink, Aunt Agnes, a caustic career woman, and finally Aunt May, the ex-nun, blossoming with a late and unexpected love, dutifully absorbing the legacy of their less-than-perfect family. Alice McDermott beautifully evokes three generations of an Irish-American family in this "haunting and masterly work of literary art" (The Wall Street Journal).

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250888365ISBN-10:1250888360UPC:9781250888365Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Sagas, Literary, Family LifeSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCCWAEFABH
Alice McDermott is the author of eight novels, including The Ninth Hour; Someone; After This; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; At Weddings and Wakes; and That Night--all published by FSG. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and other publications. For more than two decades she was the Richard A. Macksey Professor for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the faculty at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. McDermott lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.
Publisher: Picador USA

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