Description: Alice McDermott's powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of those decades through the experiences of a middle-class couple, their four children, and the changing worlds in which they live.While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately intoxicating and bitter first fruits of the sexual revolution, their older, more tentative brother, Jacob, lags behind, until he finds himself on the way to Vietnam. Meanwhile, Clare, the youngest child of their aging parents, seeks to maintain an almost saintly innocence. After This, alive with the passions and tragedies of a determining era in our history, portrays the clash of traditional, faith-bound life and modern freedom, while also capturing, with McDermott's inimitable understanding and grace, the joy, sorrow, anger, and love that underpin, and undermine, what it is to be a family.
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Type: Novel
Personalize: No
Book Series: 0
Ex Libris: Yes
Narrative Type: Fiction
Features: Ex-Library
Original Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Inscribed: Yes
Intended Audience: Adults
Edition: 0
Book Title: After this : a Novel
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Sagas, Literary
Publication Year: 2006
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Alice Mcdermott
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
