- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2007 · Finalist
After This
After This
Alice McDermott (born 1953)
English editions
Written in EnglishAfter This
The Dial Press · United States · 25 September 2007 · Paperback · 288 pages
After This
Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · September 2006 · 279 pages
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On a windy April day in Manhattan after the Second World War, Mary, nearly past the age of marrying, meets John Keane, a veteran still haunted by the death of a young private from his platoon. They marry, have four children and settle into a traditional Irish-American Catholic life in the Long Island suburbs. In short, episodic chapters the children grow up in the 1960s and 1970s, a time of doubt and rebellion whose pull their parents cannot feel. Jacob, frail and brooding, is drafted and sent to Vietnam; Michael and Annie are swept along by the new sexual freedom; and Clare, the youngest and always the obedient one, breaks with her parents in a way that tests the family and its faith.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States, 1940s–1970s
- First published
- 2006
- Author's age
- 53 when first published
- ISBN
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9780374168094 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)
9780385334693 (The Dial Press, United States)
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