The Ninth Hour - A Novel. Issued-Signed Edition. Two ISBNs: Signed Ed. ISBN 9780374904043 & 1st/1st Printing ISBN 9780374280147
by Alice McDermott
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374904049
- ISBN 13
- 9780374904043
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About This Item
Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.1102 9.1299 6.5709. First Edition / First Printing as identified with ""1"" in the full number line. Signed by author!.
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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- Bookseller
- Schwabe Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0003438260
- Title
- The Ninth Hour - A Novel. Issued-Signed Edition. Two ISBNs: Signed Ed. ISBN 9780374904043 & 1st/1st Printing ISBN 9780374280147
- Author
- Alice McDermott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0374904049
- ISBN 13
- 9780374904043
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2017-01-01
- Size
- 1.1102 9.1299 6.5709
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book;
- X weight
- 1.5807 lb
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- Number Line
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