Alice McDermott
Alice McDermott is the author of several novels, including The Ninth Hour; Someone; 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. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and elsewhere. For more than two decades she was the Richard A. Macksey Professor of 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.
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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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What About the Baby?
Alice McDermott
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from an expert novelist
Look: Artistic inspiration, religious faith, does not come...
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The Ninth Hour
Alice McDermott
Picador
Picador
From National Book Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Alice McDermott, The Ninth Hour is the critically-acclaimed “haunting and vivid portrait of an Irish Catholic clan in...
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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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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
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
A vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century by bestselling author Alice McDermott
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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...
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