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Pulitzer Prize finalist At Weddings and Wakes is "a brilliant, highly complex, extraordinary piece of fiction" (Chicago Tribune)
Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia twice a week with her three children in tow, returning to the Brooklyn home where she grew up, and where her stepmother and unmarried sisters still live. The children quietly observe Aunt Veronica, who drowns her sorrows in drink, Aunt Agnes, a caustic career woman, and finally Aunt May, the ex-nun, blossoming with a late and unexpected love, dutifully absorbing the legacy of their less-than-perfect family. Alice McDermott beautifully evokes three generations of an Irish-American family in this "haunting and masterly work of literary art" (
The Wall Street Journal).
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Alice McDermott is the author of nine novels, all published by FSG, including
Charming Billy, winner of the National Book Award, and
That Night,
At Weddings and Wakes, and
After This, which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of the essay collection
What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in
The New York Times,
The Washington Post,
The New Yorker,
Harper's Magazine, and other publications. She lives outside Washington, DC.
