Background
McDermott, Alice was born on June 27, 1953 in Brooklyn.
( A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book...)
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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(The late Billy Lynch's family and friends gather at a bar...)
The late Billy Lynch's family and friends gather at a bar in the Bronx to remember better times. They admire the way his widow, Maeve, is holding up but one cannot think of Billy without saying "There was that girl." Soon the twisted grief of Maeve, Billy and his cousin Dennis becomes apparent.
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(On a wild, windy April day in Manhattan, when Mary first ...)
On a wild, windy April day in Manhattan, when Mary first meets John Keane, she cannot know what lies ahead of her. A marriage, a fleeting season of romance, and the birth of four children will bring John and Mary to rest in the safe embrace of a traditional Catholic life in the suburbs. But neither Mary nor John, distracted by memories and longings, can feel the wind that is buffeting their children, leading them in directions beyond their parents’ control. Michael and his sister Annie are caught up in the sexual revolution. Jacob, brooding and frail, is drafted to Vietnam. And the youngest, Clare, commits a stunning transgression after a childhood spent pleasing her parents. As John and Mary struggle to hold on to their family and their faith, Alice McDermott weaves an elegant, unforgettable portrait of a world in flux–and of the secrets and sorrows, anger and love, that lie at the heart of every family.
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(Twice a week, Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia with her three ...)
Twice a week, Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia with her three children in tow, returning to the Brooklyn home where she grew up, and where her stepmother and unmarried sisters still live. And all the while, the children watch, absorbing the legacy of their haunted family.
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McDermott, Alice was born on June 27, 1953 in Brooklyn.
She attended Saint Boniface School in Elmont, New York, on Long Island (1967), Sacred Heart Academy in Hempstead (1971), and the State University of New York at Oswego, receiving her Bachelor in 1975, and received her Master of Arts from the University of New Hampshire in 1978.
McDermott is Johns Hopkins University"s Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities. She has taught at University of California, San Diego and American University, has been a writer-in-residence at Lynchburg College and Hollins College in Virginia, and was lecturer in English at the University of New Hampshire. Her short stories have appeared in Mississippi, Redbook, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker and Seventeen.
She has also published articles in The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Mississippi McDermott lives outside Washington, District of Columbia She is Catholic, though she once deemed herself "not a very good Catholic.".
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(On a wild, windy April day in Manhattan, when Mary first ...)
( A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book...)
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Married; 3 children.