04632cam a2200685 4500 573231744 TxAuBib 20220705120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781427289216 1427289212 58d58340-4568-4092-a516-80ec98a7ef99 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3284572 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib McDermott, Alice. The Ninth Hour [Libby] : A Novel. Macmillan Audio, 2017. books on tape. literary fiction. family life. Irish Americans. audiobooks. contemporary fiction. audio books. Historical Fiction. Irish Immigration. contemporary literature. national book awards. literary novels. 1950s America. historical fiction novels. christmas gifts. contemporary novels. best fiction 2017. kirkus reviews best books of the year. library journal best books of the year. npr best books of the year. hudson booksellers best books of the year. library journal top 10 books of 2017. new york times notable books of the year. time magazine best books of the year. national book critics circle nominee. wall street journal best books of the year. hanukkah gift. christmas stocking stuffer ideas. christmas gift for mom mother sister. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 223MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 223MB. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:<p><b>"[Euan Morton's] steady, gentle delivery allows McDermott's elegant prose to shine. It's a quiet story about love and sacrifice that manages to be extremely moving without becoming sentimental or maudlin. Morton's performance similarly brims with emotion but never overflows." — <i>AudioFile magazine</i></b><br /> <br /> <b>A magnificent new audiobook from one of America's finest writers</b>—<b>a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn.</b></p> <p>On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove—to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife—"that the hours of his life belong to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child.</p> <p>We begin deep inside Catholic Brooklyn, in the early part of the twentieth century. Decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the man's brief existence. Yet his suicide, although never spoken of, reverberates through many lives and over the decades testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations.</p> <p>The characters we meet — from Sally, the unborn baby at the beginning of the audiobook who becomes the center of the story, to the nuns whose personalities we come to know and love, to the neighborhood families with whose lives they are entwined — are all rendered with extraordinary sympathy and McDermott's trademark lucidity and intelligence. Alice McDermott's <i>The Ninth Hour</i> is a crowning achievement by one of the premiere writers at work in America today, and the audio edition is truly unforgettable.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-05 20:00:03. Morton, Euan. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/3284572-TheNinthHour.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=58d58340-4568-4092-a516-80ec98a7ef99&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/3284572-TheNinthHour.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=58d58340-4568-4092-a516-80ec98a7ef99&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)