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"[Euan Morton's] stable, light delivery allows McDermott's fashionable prose to sparkle. It's a silent report about love and sacrifice that manages to be extremely moving without becoming sentimental or maudlin. Morton's performance likewise brims with sentiment but never overflows." (AudioFile magazine) An impressive new audiobook in one of America's finest authors - a powerfully impacting on report spanning the twentieth hundred years of a widow and her princess and the nuns who provide their Irish-American community in Brooklyn. On the dim winter day, a Irish immigrant starts the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove - to the subway bosses who've recently terminated him, to his badgering, pregnant partner - "that the hours of his life participate in himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that employs, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun appears, unbidden, to lead the way onward for his widow and his unborn child. We begin deep inside Catholic Brooklyn, in the first part of the twentieth hundred years. Decorum, superstition, and shame collude to remove the man's brief lifestyle. Yet his suicide, although never spoken of, reverberates through many lives and over the generations testing the boundaries and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple decades. The personas we meet - from Sally, the unborn baby at the beginning of the audiobook who becomes the center of the storyline, to the nuns whose personalities we come to learn and love, to a nearby people with whose lives they can be entwined - are rendered with remarkable sympathy and McDermott's brand lucidity and brains. Alice McDermott's The Ninth Hour is a crowning accomplishment by one of the premiere authors at work in America today, and the sound edition is truly unforgettable.
