McDermott, Alice

Charming Billy by Alice McDermott ( Book )
57 editions published between 1992 and 2009 in 7 languages and held by 3,358 libraries worldwide
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.

Child of my heart by Alice McDermott ( Book )
40 editions published between 2002 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 2,576 libraries worldwide
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.

After this by Alice McDermott ( Book )
29 editions published between 2006 and 2009 in English and French and held by 2,549 libraries worldwide
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.

At weddings and wakes by Alice McDermott ( Book )
42 editions published between 1992 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 2,133 libraries worldwide
Set in the Sixties, McDermott's third novel tells the story of an extended Irish-American family observed primarily through the eyes of the children, a son and two daughters. Time circles backwards and forwards around a variety of family rituals: holiday meals, vacations at the shore, the wedding of a favorite aunt. The poignant middle-aged romance that develops between the aunt, a former nun, and her suitor, a shy mailman, exacerbates already pronounced family tensions. As they listen to oft-repeated stories about poverty, disease, and early deaths, the children are solemn witnesses to the Irish immigrant experience in America. By turns wry and sad, this is McDermott's finest novel to date. Highly recommended.

That night by Alice McDermott ( Book )
30 editions published between 1987 and 2007 in 6 languages and held by 1,660 libraries worldwide
Set on Long Island in the sixties, Rick and Sheryl, high school sweethearts who become lovers, take matters into their own hands when faced with the strict conventions of time and place when Sheryl becomes pregnant.

A bigamist's daughter : a novel by Alice McDermott ( Book )
24 editions published between 1982 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,047 libraries worldwide
Elizabeth Connelly, an editor at a vanity press, feels as though she is sleepwalking through life.

An introduction to A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway audio guide by Dan Stone ( Recording )
2 editions published between 2006 and 2008 in English and held by 752 libraries worldwide
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Hemingway's A farewell to arms, a novel about the tenuous nature of love in time of war told through the story of Lieutenant Henry, an American, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse, who meet during World War I.

Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to arms by Dan Stone ( Recording )
1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 85 libraries worldwide

That night ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1994 in English and held by 39 libraries worldwide
Two teenagers follow their hearts and defy the conventions of 1960s suburbia in this tender romance.

An introduction to A Farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway by Dan Stone ( Recording )
1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 14 libraries worldwide
Readings of excerpts and critical analysis.