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The Ninth Hour: A Novel
by Alice McDermott
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0374280142
- ISBN 13
- 9780374280147
- Seller
-
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 20174. Stated First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good.
Reviews
On Mar 29 2018, The Old Library Bookshop said:
I had read a short story based on this novel in The New Yorker a year or so ago, and Sr. St. Saviour won my heart. Walking home after a long day begging for funds for her order of nursing sisters, feet aching and longing to empty her bursting bladder, the 60-something-year-old nun enters unbidden a smoky building where a young man has just committed suicide by turning on the gas. Sister determines to lead the way forward for his surviving wife, Annie, and young daughter, Sally. Sally becomes the convent pet after her mother takes a job working with Sr. Illuminata in the laundry in the basement of a convent set in the heart of mid-century Brooklyn. It is Sally's story, and that of her mother's friend, little Sr. Jeanne, that takes center stage in this beautiful little novel, a tale of the paradoxes and sacrifices that love of God and of other frail human beings entail.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Endless Shores Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 106324
- Title
- The Ninth Hour: A Novel
- Author
- Alice McDermott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374280142
- ISBN 13
- 9780374280147
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus And Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 20174
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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About the Seller
Endless Shores Books
Biblio member since 2010
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
About Endless Shores Books
We are a family owned Canadian business in the small town of Bridgetown in the beautiful Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. Our shop tries to carry something for everyone, from children's board books to mysteries, thrillers and antiquarian and out-of-print books as well as music and movies.
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- First Edition
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