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Alice McDermott: The Ninth Hour

October 19, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Free

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, a Little Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child. In 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, although 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 lucidity and intelligence, Alice McDermott’s The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today.

Details

Date:
October 19, 2017
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Website:
http://as.nyu.edu/irelandhouse/events/fall-2017/mcdermott101917.html

Venue

Glucksman Ireland House
1 Washington Mews
NY, United States

Organizer

Glucksman Ireland House NYU
Phone
212-998-3950
Email
ireland.house@nyu.edu
View Organizer Website

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