The Ninth Hour
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2017.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 361 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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.
Series: Thorndike Press large print core series.
Subjects:
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Irish Americans -- Fiction.
Widows -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Nuns -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Irish Americans -- Fiction.
Widows -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Nuns -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN:
9781432841508
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LPF McDermott | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Large Print Fiction | In |
LPF McDermott | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Large Print Fiction | In |
LPF McDermott | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Large Print Fiction | In |