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The ninth hour / Alice McDermott.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
LP MCDE	Large Print		Bankstown .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781444837421
ISBN	1444837427
Name	McDermott, Alice author
Title	The ninth hour / Alice McDermott.
Edition	Large print edition.
Published	Leicester : Thorpe, Charnwood, 2018.
Description	296 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Summary	On a gloomy February afternoon, Jim, an Irish immigrant, sends his wife Annie out to do the shopping before dark falls. He seals their meagre apartment, unhooks the gas tube inside the oven, and inhales. Sister St. Saviour, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, catches the scent of fire doused with water and hurries to the scene: a gathered crowd, firemen, and a distraught young widow. Moved by the woman's plight, and her unborn child, the ageing nun finds Annie work in the convent's laundry - where, in turn, her daughter will grow up amidst the crank of the wringer and the hiss of the iron. As the decades pass, Jim's suicide reverberates through many lives - testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness.
Target audience note	Adult.
Subjects	Widows -- Fiction
	Nuns -- Fiction
	Suicide -- Fiction
	Irish -- New York (State) New York -- Fiction
	Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genre	Large type books
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction . Irish -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction . Large type books . Nuns -- Fiction . Suicide -- Fiction . Widows -- Fiction . Authors: McDermott, Alice .