After This

Author(s): Alice McDermott

Fiction

Alice McDermott's masterful novel is a portrait of a working-class American family living through the tumultuous middle decades of the twentieth century. While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately intoxicating and bitter fruits of the sexual revolution, their older brother, Jacob, finds himself on the way to Vietnam. Clare, the youngest child, seeks to maintain an almost saintly innocence. As their parents, John and Mary, struggle to uphold the family's framework, the four siblings are destined to experience the challenges and liberties of the 1960s. With McDermott's inimitable understanding and grace, "After This" captures the joy, sorrow, anger and love that underpin, and undermine, what it is to be a family.


Product Information

By the National Book Award-winning author of Charming Billy Child of My Heart has sold over 10,000 copies in paperback For fans of Anne Tyler

Alice McDermott is the author of five novels including Child of My Heart, Charming Billy (winner of the 1998 National Book Award), At Weddings and Wakes, A Bigamist's Daughter and That Night, all published by Bloomsbury. She lives with her family outside Washington DC.

General Fields

  • : 9780747593218
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : June 2008
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Alice McDermott
  • : 288
  • : 813.54
  • : Paperback