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Author:	Alice McDermott	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Farrar Straus & Giroux	Edition:	1
ISBN-10:	0374168091	ISBN-13:	9780374168094
Subject:	--	Publication Year:	2006
Topic:	--	Special Attributes:	--
Language:	English	Condition:	Good

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Alice McDermott's sixth novel begins shortly after the end of WWII and shows a young woman unexpectedly meeting the man she will marry. With her typically masterful storytelling, McDermott tracks the woman and her family through the tumult of children, war, and the 1960s.
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Length:	279 pages
Height:	8.5 in.
Width:	6.0 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	15.2 oz.

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A vivid portrait of an American family during the middle decades of the twentieth century evokes the social, spiritual, and political turmoil of the era as seen through the experiences of a middle-class couple and their children, as they cope with the changing world around them. 125,000 first printing.
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"Word by word, metaphor by metaphor, [Alice] McDermott writes the most exquisitely perceptive and atmospheric fiction published today. Heir to Woolf and Nabokov, she nets the totality of human consciousness in flawlessly rendered...fiction." [Starred review] (07/01/2006) "[Alice] McDermott is at the height of her powers here, charging her seemingly ordinary scenes with the possibility of danger, of terror or mystery and, on occasion, radiance. She does so with the lightest touch, with the silkiest humor, and yet at the same time she probes deeply into the moment." (09/03/2006) "Ms. McDermott gives us an affecting meditation on the consolations and discontents of family life--the centripetal and centrifugal forces that bind husbands and wives, parents and children together and fling them ineluctably apart." (09/08/2006) "The novel embodies the tension between the climactic expectations we bring to books (and, indeed, our lives) and truth's anticlimactic tug. Characters brighten into glowing complexity and then, trampled by the 'march of time,' are all but extinguished in terrifyingly casual flash-forwards that, within the space of a paragraph, effectively write off all the writing that's been devoted to them....Her true subject is her inability, in good conscience, to fully credit the significance of the human travails she describes with such care." (10/01/2006)

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After This: A Novel

Alice McDermott

Book Notes:
Binding:	Hardcover
Book Condition:	Good
Jacket Condition:	Good

ISBN:	0374168091
Publication Date:	2006-09-05
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pages:	288
Height:	1.1000 inches
Width:	5.8000 inches
Weight:	0.9500 pounds

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