The ninth hour : a novel / Alice McDermott.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781427289193
- Physical Description: 7 audio discs (8.5 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: [New York] : Macmillan Audio, [2017]
- Copyright: ℗2017
Content descriptions
General Note: | Unabridged. Compact discs. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Euan Morton. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Suicide > Fiction. Irish > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Sound recording. Audiobooks. |
Available copies
- 11 of 11 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Bloomfield Eastern Greene Co PL - Bloomfield Main | CDBOOK FIC MCD (Text) | 36803001033138 | CD BOOK | Available | - |
Cambridge City PL - Cambridge City | CD F McD (Text) | 76893000265028 | Adult Audiobooks | Available | - |
Danville-Center Twp PL - Danville | BCD F McD (Text) | 32604030010642 | AD Audio Book | Available | - |
Greensburg-Decatur Co PL - Greensburg | CDBK MCDERMOTT (Text) | 32826014086573 | Books on CD | Available | - |
Hussey-Mayfield Mem. PL - Zionsville | CD FIC MCDERMOTT, ALICE (Text) | 33946003238172 | Adult Fiction Audiobooks | Available | - |
LaGrange Co PL - LaGrange Main Library | CD F MCD (Text) | 30477101084170 | Main Floor: Audiobook | Available | - |
Lowell PL - Lowell | F.CD MCDERM (Text) | 33113034528622 | Adult Books-on-CD | Available | - |
North Madison Co PL - Ralph E. Hazelbaker Library (Summitville) | FIC MCD (Text) | 30419300558101 | Audiobooks | Available | - |
Perry Co PL - Tell City Main Library | AUDIO CD MCD (Text) | 70621000216987 | Adult - Audio CD | Available | - |
South Whitley Comm. PL - South Whitley | CD -- FICTION MCDERMOTT ALICE (Text) | 30402004692580 | ADULT AUDIOBOOK | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early twentieth-century Catholic Brooklyn. - Baker & Taylor
A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early 20th-century Catholic Brooklyn. By the National Book Award-winning author ofCharming Billy . Simultaneous. - McMillan Palgrave
"[Euan Morton's] steady, gentle delivery allows McDermott's elegant prose to shine. It's a quiet story about love and sacrifice that manages to be extremely moving without becoming sentimental or maudlin. Morton's performance similarly brims with emotion but never overflows." â AudioFile magazine
A magnificent new audiobook from one of Americaâs finest writersâa 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 the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to proveâto the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his pregnant wifeââthat the hours of his life belong to himself alone.â In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child.
We begin deep inside Catholic Brooklyn, in the early part of the twentieth century. Decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the manâs brief existence. Yet his suicide, although never spoken of, reverberates through many lives and over the decades testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations.
The characters we meet â from Sally, the unborn baby at the beginning of the audiobook who becomes the center of the story, to the nuns whose personalities we come to know and love, to the neighborhood families with whose lives they are entwined â are all rendered with extraordinary sympathy and McDermottâs trademark lucidity and intelligence. Alice McDermottâs The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement by one of the premiere writers at work in America today, and the audio edition is truly unforgettable.