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Absolution
Alice McDermott
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R646
R552
Discovery Miles 5 520
Save R94 (15%)
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Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real
editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth
watches the real world--of real struggles, passion, pain, and
love--spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her
with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And
suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban
professional slumber--by a man's real touch, by a real story in
search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade
of all--in Alice McDermott's luminous novel of memory, revelation,
and desire.
On a wild, windy April day in Manhattan, when Mary first meets John
Keane, she cannot know what lies ahead of her. A marriage, a
fleeting season of romance, and the birth of four children will
bring John and Mary to rest in the safe embrace of a traditional
Catholic life in the suburbs. But neither Mary nor John, distracted
by memories and longings, can feel the wind that is buffeting their
children, leading them in directions beyond their parents' control.
Michael and his sister Annie are caught up in the sexual
revolution. Jacob, brooding and frail, is drafted to Vietnam. And
the youngest, Clare, commits a stunning transgression after a
childhood spent pleasing her parents. As John and Mary struggle to
hold on to their family and their faith, Alice McDermott weaves an
elegant, unforgettable portrait of a world in flux-and of the
secrets and sorrows, anger and love, that lie at the heart of every
family.
In Alice McDermott's first work of fiction since her best-selling, National Book Award-winning Charming Billy, a woman recalls her fifteenth summer with the wry and bittersweet wisdom of hindsight.
The beautiful child of older parents, raised on the eastern end of Long Island, Theresa is her town's most sought-after babysitter--cheerful, poised, an effortless storyteller, a wonder with children and animals. Among her charges this fateful summer is Daisy, her younger cousin, who has come to spend a few quiet weeks in this bucolic place. While Theresa copes with the challenge presented by the neighborhood's waiflike children, the tumultuous households of her employers, the attentions of an aging painter, and Daisy's fragility of body and spirit, her precocious, tongue-in-check sense of order is tested as she makes the perilous crossing into adulthood. In her deeply etched rendering of all that happened that seemingly idyllic season, McDermott once again peers into the depths of everyday life with inimitable insight and grace.
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