The Ninth Hour Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Alice McDermott
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
363

The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott Book Summary

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 wife—that “the hours of his life . . . belonged to himself alone.” In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Saviour, an aging nun, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child.

In Catholic Brooklyn in the early part of the twentieth century, decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the man’s brief existence, and yet his suicide, though never spoken of, reverberates through many lives—testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations. Rendered with remarkable delicacy, heart, and intelligence, Alice McDermott’s The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today.

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Book Name The Ninth Hour
Genre Literary Fiction
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 3.39 MB

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Only if you care about nuns.. Nuns. This is a book for people that love nuns. Slow story, well written, but if you don’t already have a soft spot for nuns you’re not going to find much here.

The Ninth Hour. I found the story line confusing. Mother/ daughter initial story line interesting and easily followed. As the story unfolded It seemed to repeatedly jump back in time and then return to the present time period of the novel. While I tried to understand and enjoy the novel, in conclusion, it was not a satisfying read.

The Ninth Hour. A beautifully written story about what it really means to be religious—to embrace the best of what it means to live a religious life. I felt so good after reading it.

From the past. great story

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Summary of The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott

The The Ninth Hour book written by Alice McDermott was published on 19 September 2017, Tuesday in the Literary Fiction category. A total of 363 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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