After This - Softcover

McDermott, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747590206 ISBN 13: 9780747590200

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007

Synopsis

ALICE MCDERMOTT S MASTERFUL NOVEL IS A PORTRAIT OF A WORKING-CLASS AMERICAN FAMILY LIVING THROUGH THE TUMULTUOUS MIDDLE DECADES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. WHILE MICHAEL AND ANNIE KEANE TASTE THE ALTERNATELY INTOXICATING AND BITTER FRUITS OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION, THEIR OLDER BROTHER, JACOB, FINDS HIMSELF ON THE WAY TO VIETNAM. CLARE, THE YOUNGEST CHILD, SEEKS TO MAINTAIN AN ALMOST SAINTLY INNOCENCE. AS THEIR PARENTS, JOHN AND MARY, STRUGGLE TO UPHOLD THE FAMILY S FRAMEWORK, THE FOUR SIBLINGS ARE DESTINED TO EXPERIENCE THE CHALLENGES AND LIBERTIES BORN IN THE CRUCIBLE OF THE 1960S. WITH MCDERMOTT S INIMITABLE UNDERSTANDING AND GRACE, AFTER THIS CAPTURES THE JOY, SORROW, ANGER AND LOVE THAT UNDERPIN, AND UNDERMINE, WHAT IT IS TO BE A FAMILY

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Review

`It's a beautifully etched portrait of how generations are never as sure as they seem about their interpretation of the world around them. Wonderful reading' -- Good Housekeeping

`A master ... McDermott flawlessly encapsulates an era in the
private moments of one family's life' -- Publishers Weekly

`It takes a certain confidence to assume the whole world in a drop
of water; it takes a mastery to capture it' -- Boston Globe

`McDermott's elegant, understated prose slips down like a cool,
refreshing drink' -- Sunday Telegraph

`McDermott's simple prose is full of poetic distillations that capture a mood or a moment just so, and it all comes together in a radiant portrait of family life, dappled with blessings and sorrow, anger and love' -- Hephzibah Anderson, Daily Mail

`Page-by-page brilliance' -- Paul Gray, New York Times

`The characters live in a world that is sharply sentient, full of movement, changeable and unpredictable ... a novel to relish.'
-- Terri Apter, Times Literary Supplement

`There's no one like McDermott ... her touch is light as a
feather, her perceptions purely accurate' -- Elle

From the Publisher

By the National Book Award-winning author of Charming Billy.
After This is a New York Times bestseller.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0747590206
• ISBN 13: 9780747590200
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288