The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott

The Ninth Hour

Alice McDermott

247 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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On a gloomy February afternoon, Jim sends his wife Annie out to do the shopping before dark falls. He seals their meagre apartment, unhooks the gas tube inside the oven, and inhales. Sister St. Saviour, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, ca...

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