Songs in Ordinary Time (Oprah's Book Club) - Softcover

Morris, Mary McGarry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140244824 ISBN 13: 9780140244823

Publisher: Penguin, 1996

Synopsis

It's the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. Maria Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen involved with a young priest; Norm, sixteen hotheaded and idealistic; and Benny, twelve isolated and misunderstood, and so desperate for his mother's happiness that he hides the deadly truth he knows about Duvall. We also meet Sam Fermoyle, the children's alcoholic father; Sam's brother-in-law, who makes anonymous "love" calls from the bathroom of his failing appliance store; and the Klubock family, who in contrast to the Fermoyles live an orderly life in the house next door.

Songs in Ordinary Time is a masterful epic of the everyday, illuminating the kaleidoscope of lives that tell the compelling story of this unforgettably family.

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About this title

Review:

‘A novel of epic, breathtaking scope and extraordinary ambition.’
Scotland on Sunday

‘Utterly absorbing and unusually poignant.’
Sunday Telegraph

‘Mary McGarry Morris is one of our finest writers.’
Miami Herald

‘Extraordinary and deeply satisfying.’
USA Today

About the Author:

Mary McGarry Morris is the author of Vanished, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award; A Dangerous Woman, which was chosen by Time as of of the five best novels of 1991; Songs in Ordinary Time, an Oprah's Book Club Selection and national bestseller, and the critically acclaimed Fiona Range and A Hole in the Universe. She lives in Andover, Massachussetts.

On the web: http: //www.marymcgarrymorris.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140244824
• ISBN 13: 9780140244823
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 752