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That Night: A Novel

By Alice McDermott

Book information

Publisher
Picador
Year
2012
ISBN
031268116X, 9780312681166
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
143 kB (146757 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
192\0
Time added
2014-05-21 09:09:09

Description

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award It is high summer, the early 1960s. Sheryl and Rick, two Long Island teenagers, share an intense, all-consuming love. But Sheryl’s widowed mother steps between them, and one moonlit night Rick and a gang of hoodlums descend upon her quiet neighborhood. That night, driven by Rick’s determination to reclaim Sheryl, the young men provoke a violent confrontation, and as fathers step forward to protect their turf, notions of innocence belonging to both sides of the brawl are fractured forever. Alice McDermott’s That Night is "a moving and captivating novel, both celebration and elegy…a rare and memorable work" (The Cleveland Plain Dealer).

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