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Absolution

Absolution

Absolution
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Absolution Hardback - 2023

by McDermott, Alice

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Absolution
  • Author McDermott, Alice
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Publication date 2023
  • Features Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0374610487I4N00
  • ISBN 9780374610487 / 0374610487
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.4 in (21.34 x 14.22 x 3.56 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Historical fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2023018757
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
  • Quantity available 4

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From the publisher

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Oprah Daily, Real Simple, and Vogue

A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.

American women--American wives--have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. 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, Charlene's daughter, spurred by an encounter with an aging Vietnam vet, reaches out to Tricia. Together, they look back at their time in Saigon, taking wry account of that pivotal year and of Charlene's altruistic machinations, and discovering how their own lives as women on the periphery--of politics, of history, of war, of their husbands' convictions--have been shaped and burdened by the same sort of unintended consequences that followed America's tragic interference in Southeast Asia.

A virtuosic new novel from Alice McDermott, one of our most observant, most affecting writers, about folly and grace, obligation, sacrifice, and, finally, the quest for absolution in a broken world.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/15/2023, Page 20
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/2023, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 11/03/2023, Page 1
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 06/01/2023, Page 2
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/28/2023, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 11/04/2023, Page 0

About the author

Alice McDermott is the author of eight previous novels, all published by FSG, including Charming Billy, winner of the National Book Award, and That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This, which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of the essay collection What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and other publications. She lives outside Washington, D.C.

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