Exploration of the make-up of the family and the cycles and bitterness and tenderness which move them, forms the main theme of this novel from the author of "The Bigamist's Daughter" and "That Night", a National Book Award nominee in 1987.
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Exploration of the make-up of the family and the cycles and bitterness and tenderness which move them, forms the main theme of this novel from the author of "The Bigamist's Daughter" and "That Night", a National Book Award nominee in 1987.
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Very Good. 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light age and shelf wear, remains fine. First edition copy....Signed Copy. We ship daily from our Bookshop.
Alice McDermott's At Weddings and Wakes is a beautifully composed short novel whose sentences in their sinuous complexity and loveliness slow the reader's eye; they become soundings in the mind. It is the story of an Irish Catholic family: a married daughter, her stepmother, and unmarried sisters: their loves and losses. McDermott's prose moves quickly and fluidly between past and present--the novel's structure is Woolfian--and the narrative is knowing of transience, mortality, those moments of being that constitute a life. The author works on a small canvas, but it's a perfect one.
