After This

English

ISBN: 0374168091

EAN: 9780374168094

Category: Fiction / Sagas

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Release Date: 09/05/2006

Synopsis: Alice McDermotts powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of those decades through the experiences of a middle-class couple, their four children, and the changing worlds in which they live. While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately intoxicating and bitter first fruits of the sexual revolution, their older, more tentative brother, Jacob, lags behind, until he finds himself on the way to Vietnam. Meanwhile, Clare, the youngest child of their aging parents, seeks to maintain an almost saintly innocence.After This, alive with the passions and tragedies of a determining era in our history, portrays the clash of traditional, faith-bound life and modern freedom, while also capturing, with McDermotts inimitable understanding and grace, the joy, sorrow, anger, and love that underpin, and undermine, what it is to be a family.

Awards: Pulitzer Prize – null  Pulitzer Prize – null 

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After This

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.09 inches

Width: 5.76 inches

Length: 8.53 inches

Weight: 15.56 oz

Pages: 288