Catalog

Record Details

Catalog Search

[ 2 filters applied ]

Back To Results
Showing Item 1 of 1
The ninth hour Cover Image Large Print Book Large Print Book

The ninth hour

McDermott, Alice (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1432841505
  • ISBN: 9781432841508
  • Physical Description: 361 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2017.

Search for related items by subject

Subject: New York (State) New York
Widows
Nuns
Large type books
Irish Americans
Immigrants
FICTION / Literary
Large type books
Nuns New York (State) New York Fiction
Widows New York (State) New York Fiction
Irish Americans Fiction
Immigrants New York (State) New York 20th century Fiction
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Search for related items by series

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Sage Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Wallowa County Public Libraries. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Wallowa Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Wallowa Public Library LP F McD (Text) 30004000227864 Large Print Available -
Back To Results
Showing Item 1 of 1

Additional Resources