Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book (nominee)
Alice McDermott's powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of those decades through the experiences of a middle-class couple, their four children, and the changing worlds in which they live.  While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately intoxicating and bitter first fruits of the sexual revolution, their older, more tentative brother, Jacob, lags behind, until he finds himself on the way to Vietnam. Meanwhile, Clare, the youngest child of their aging parents, seeks to maintain an almost saintly innocence. After This, alive with the passions and tragedies of a determining era in our history, portrays the clash of traditional, faith-bound life and modern freedom, while also capturing, with McDermott's inimitable understanding and grace, the joy, sorrow, anger, and love that underpin, and undermine, what it is to be a family.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
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October 2008 : USA Library Binding
December 2006 : USA Hardback
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Title: After This
Author(s): Alice McDermott
ISBN: 0-7475-9321-3 / 978-0-7475-9321-8 (UK edition)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Availability: Amazon UK
September 2007 : USA Paperback
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2006 : USA Paperback
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Title: After This: A Novel
Author(s): Alice McDermott
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Availability: Amazon CA