The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott

The Ninth Hour

Alice McDermott

missing page info Add in missing page information first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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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 him...

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