by Alice McDermott · Bloomsbury · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747563945
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«At Weddings and Wakes» is the literary fiction novel by Alice McDermott, published by Bloomsbury in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Twice a week, Lucy Dailey returns with her three children to the Brooklyn house where she grew up, where her stepmother and unmarried sisters live. The novel follows three generations of an Irish-American family through the children's eyes, with their losses, celebrations, and the memory that binds them.
Originally published in 1992, it was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1993; this edition is from May 2003.
For readers of literary fiction and family narrative, including book clubs and those seeking stories about Irish-American families.
Alice McDermott is an American writer and university professor. She is the author of nine novels and a collection of essays. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Absolution was awarded the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.
