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  • Absolution

    A Novel

    by Alice McDermott ...
    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNamed a Best Book of the Year by Time, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Oprah Daily, Real Simple, and VogueA riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.American women—American wives—have be... ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Ninth Hour

    A Novel

    by Alice McDermott ...
    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 community in Brooklyn.On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens a gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove—to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his pregnant ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Charming Billy

    A Novel

    by Alice McDermott ...
    Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller, Charming Billy is “Alice McDermott’s masterpiece” (NPR).In a small bar somewhere in the Bronx, a funeral party has gathered to honor Billy Lynch. Through the night, his friends and family will weave together the tale of a husband, lover, dreamer, and storyteller, but also that of a hopeless drunk whose immense charm was but a veil ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • After This

    by Alice McDermott ...
    On a wild, windy April day in Manhattan, when Mary first meets John Keane, she cannot know what lies ahead of her. A marriage, a fleeting season of romance, and the birth of four children will bring John and Mary to rest in the safe embrace of a traditional Catholic life in the suburbs. But neither Mary nor John, distracted by memories and longings, can feel the wind that is buffeting their ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Someone

    by Alice McDermott ...
    A novel that speaks of life as it is daily lived; a crowning achievement by one of the finest American writersAn ordinary life—its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion—lived by an ordinary woman: this is the subject of Someone, Alice McDermott’s extraordinary return, seven years after the publication of After This. Scattered recollections—of childhood, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • That Night

    by Alice McDermott ...
    'A stunning work' Sunday Times'That Night has universal appeal ... there is a depth of feeling here which is beautifully - and seriously - realised' Independent______________________The evocative second novel from National Book Award winner Alice McDermottOn a warm suburban night, the sound of lawn sprinklers is drowned out by the rumble of hot rods. Suddenly, a car c... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Child of My Heart

    A Novel

    by Alice McDermott ...
    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, and Flora, the toddler child of a local artist. There was also, for a while, a litter of wild rabbits, three of them, that had been left under our back steps.... "Alice McDermott's haunting and enchanting new work of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • That Night

    A Novel

    by Alice McDermott ...
    The emotionally powerful story of young love set in suburban Long Island in the 60s. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • A Bigamist's Daughter

    by Alice McDermott ...
    Alice McDermott's brilliant first novel'One of our finest novelists at work today' LA TIMES'There's no one like Alice McDermott ... her touch is light as a feather, her perceptions purely accurate' ELLEElizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world - of real struggles, passion, pain and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • At Weddings and Wakes

    A Novel

    by Alice McDermott ...
    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 tender, sad and funny book from the author of the National Book Award-nominated That Night and Charming Billy ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Charming Billy

    by Alice McDermott ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD'A masterpiece' Time OutA moving novel about love and grief by the New York Times bestselling authorThe late Billy Lynch's family and friends gather at a small bar and grill in the Bronx to remember better times. His widow, Maeve, is there and everyone admires the way she is holding up, just as they always admired the way she cared for Billy after the alcohol had ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Bigamist's Daughter

    A Novel

    by Alice McDermott ...
    The New York Times Bestselling Author of After This and Charming BillyElizabeth Connelly, editor at a New York vanity press, sells the dream of publication (admittedly, to writers of questionable talent). Stories of true emotional depth rarely cross her desk. But when a young writer named Tupper Daniels walks in, bearing an unfinished novel, Elizabeth is drawn to both the novelist and his story—a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook