Alice McDermott
Alice McDermott is the author of several novels, including After This; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; and At Weddings and Wakes, all published by FSG. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. McDermott lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.
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After This by Alice McDermott--Audiobook Excerpt
Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Alice McDermott's novel After This, narrated by Martha Plimpton. This powerful novel wittily captures the social, political and spiritual upheavals of the mid-twentieth century through the story of a family, and the changing world in which they live. While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately intoxicating and bitter first fruits of the sexual revolution, their older, more tentative brother lags behind, until he finds himself on the way to Vietnam.
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Meet Alice McDermott as she reads from her new novel The Ninth Hour.
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The Ninth Hour
Alice McDermott
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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...
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The Ninth Hour
Alice McDermott; read by Euan Morton
Macmillan Audio
Macmillan Audio
A portrait of the Irish-American experience in the 1940s and 1950s, by the National Book Award-winning author
On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in...
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Someone
Alice McDermott
Picador
Picador
An ordinary life-its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion-lived by an ordinary, but unforgettable woman: this is the subject of Someone, Alice McDermott's...
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Charming Billy
Picador Modern Classics
Alice McDermott
Picador
Picador Modern Classics
Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered to comfort his widow, and to pay their respects to one of the last great romantics. As they trade tales of his famous humor, immense charm, and consuming...
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Someone
Alice McDermott
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A fully realized portrait of one woman's life in all its complexity, by the National Book Award–winning author
An ordinary life—its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of...
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That Night
Alice McDermott
Picador
Picador
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
It is high summer, the early 1960s. Sheryl and Rick, two Long Island teenagers, share an intense, all-consuming love. But Sheryl's...
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A Bigamist's Daughter
Alice McDermott
Picador
Picador
The New York Times Bestselling Author of After This and Charming Billy
Elizabeth Connelly, editor at a New York vanity press, sells the dream...
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At Weddings and Wakes
Alice McDermott
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The three children of an Irish-American family in Long Island are witnesses to the cycles of dissatisfaction, bitterness and recurring affection that make up the lives of their extended family. A...
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Charming Billy
Alice McDermott
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Alice McDermott tells the story of Billy Lynch within the complex matrix of a tightly knit Irish American community, in a voice that is resonant and full of deep feeling. Charming Billy is a masterpiece...
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At Weddings and Wakes
Alice McDermott
Picador
Picador
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...
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After This
Alice McDermott
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Alice McDermott's powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual...
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After This
Alice McDermott
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Alice McDermott's powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual...
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A Bigamist's Daughter
Alice McDermott
Picador
Picador
The New York Times Bestselling Author of After This and Charming Billy
Elizabeth Connelly, editor at a New York vanity press, sells the dream of publication...
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Child of My Heart
Alice McDermott
Picador
Picador
In Alice McDermott's first work of fiction since her best-selling, National Book Award-winning Charming Billy, a woman recalls her fifteenth summer with the wry and bittersweet wisdom of hindsight.
The...
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Child of My Heart
Alice McDermott; Read by Sheryl Bernstein
Macmillan Audio
Macmillan Audio
A young girl's astonishing, poignant first look into the turbulent heart of things
"I had in my care that summer four dogs, three cats, the Moran kids, Daisy, my eight-year-old cousin,...
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