01715cam a2200325 i 4500 328363426 TxAuBib 20170927120000.0 170403s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780374280147 hardcover 0374280142 hardcover (OCoLC)968557357 TxAuBib rda McDermott, Alice. The ninth hour / Alice McDermott. 9th hour. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. 247 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove--to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife--"that the hours of his life belong to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child. A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early twentieth-century Catholic Brooklyn. 20170927. Widows New York (State) New York Fiction. . Nuns New York (State) New York Fiction. Irish Americans Fiction. Domestic fiction. BSBPL