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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDMcDermott, Alice.
Summary: A teenage girl, raised on the east end of Long Island among the country estates of the rich, reflects on her understanding of human nature during a seemingly idyllic summer spent with her eight-year-old cousin Daisy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDMcDermott, Alice
Summary: "A collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched "virtuoso of language and image" (Rebecca Steinitz, The Boston Globe)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MCDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Essay McDermottMcDermott, Alice
Summary: "The story of a Brooklyn-born woman's life - her family, her neighborhood, her daily trials and triumphs - from childhood to old age"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McDermott 2013McDermott, Alice.
Summary: A portrait of an American family during the middle decades of the twentieth century evokes the social, spiritual, and political turmoil of the era as seen through the experiences of a middle-class couple and their children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDMcDermott, Alice.
Summary: A young woman, cousin to the late Billy Lynch who has just died of alcoholism, traces the story of his lost love, discovering her own father's role in trying to keep Billy from being hurt by the truth about Eva, and contemplating the effect her father's lie had on the rest of the family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1998
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Summary: Theresa is the town's most sought-after babysitter but she must cope with the challenges presented by the neighborhood's waiflike children, the tumultuous households of her employers, the mysterious compelling attention of an aging painter.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCDMcDermott, Alice
Summary: Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands with their own, inchoate impulse to "do good" for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early twentieth-century Catholic Brooklyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McDermott 2017Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MCD FICMcDermott, Alice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDMcDermott, Alice
Summary: In Saigon in 1963, two young American wives form a wary alliance. Tricia is a starry-eyed newlywed, married to a rising oil engineer “on loan” to US Navy Intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a talented hostess and determined altruist, on a mission to relieve the “wretchedness” she sees all around her. When Tricia miscarries, Charlene sweeps her into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early twentieth-century Catholic Brooklyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC MCDMcDermott, Alice.
Summary: Story of an Irish-Catholic family on Long Island told through the eyes of two sisters and their brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDContents: Disc 1. Yma dream / Thomas Meehan (10:46)-- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara (20:00)-- The fix / Percival Everett (29:22)-- disc 2. The H Street sledding record / Ron Carlson (21:01)-- The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri (51:50)-- disc 3. Valor / Richard Bausch (47:25)-- Enough / Alice McDermott (20:06).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELSummary: Featuring guest editor contributions by the author of "Less," the latest edition of the respected literary annual collects twenty top-selected short stories from the previous year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022