{"product_id":"macmillan-publishers-ninth-hour-the-a-novel","title":"The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alice McDermott,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ninth Hour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the critically acclaimed “haunting and vivid portrait of an Irish Catholic clan in early twentieth century America” (\u003ci\u003eThe Associated Press\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMagazine’s Top Ten Novels of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2017 Kirkus Prize Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNotable Book\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens a gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove—to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his pregnant wife—that “the hours of his life . . . belonged to himself alone.” In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Saviour, an aging nun, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Catholic Brooklyn in the early part of the twentieth century, decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the man’s brief existence, and yet his suicide, though never spoken of, reverberates through many lives—testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations. Rendered with remarkable delicacy, heart, and intelligence, Alice McDermott’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ninth Hour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e247 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 3\/8\" x 8 1\/4\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54262667149617,"sku":"Books","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0065\/4842\/2709\/files\/goldenrulebooksnewfinals-5.jpg?v=1781283185","url":"https:\/\/shopgoldenrule.com\/products\/macmillan-publishers-ninth-hour-the-a-novel","provider":"GOLDEN RULE GALLERY","version":"1.0","type":"link"}