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At Weddings and Wakes

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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 quietly observe Aunt Veronica, who drowns her sorrows in drink.  Aunt Agnes, a caustic career woman, and finally Aunt May, the ex-nun, blossoming with a late and unexpected love, dutifully absorbing the legacy of their less-than-perfect family.  Alice McDermott beautifully evokes three generations of an Irish-American family in this "haunting and masterly work of literary art" (The Wall Street Journal).
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About the Author

Alice McDermott is the author of six novels.  Her articles, reviews and stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Redbook and elsewhere.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780374106744
Subtitle:
A Novel
Author:
McDermott, Alice
Author:
McDermott, Alice
Publisher:
Picador
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Family
Subject:
New york (state)
Subject:
Large type books
Subject:
Sagas
Subject:
Irish americans
Subject:
Long island
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Family -- Fiction.
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Family life
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
vol. 1
Publication Date:
20091124
Binding:
Electronic book text in proprietary or open standard format
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
8.31 x 5.7 x 0.7 in
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