Mac flew higher than my hopes for the future *ago
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I was drawn into the superb writing of Alice McDermott through her latest book, The Ninth Hour.
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Was this truly the flow of this storyline or were the characters simply molded to fit the premise? They each seemed to bend in the direction of the social upheavals of the era: birth control, abortions, women's rights, Vietnam, and so on. Social, political, and spiritual experiences bounced off of them as the ball hit repeatedly reminding us of the signposts of the times.
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As their stories unfolded, I almost had the feeling of a pinball effect. McDermott introduces us to the Keane children: Jacob, Michael, Annie, and Clare. Was it to replicate the familiar or was it to escape the mundane? You left the confines of your childhood abode and lit the match under another of your own. And four children seemed to follow quickly before roots burrowed into that earth. John and Mary Keane met and married before the leaves even had time to turn color. Shaken and stirred, we are who we are.Īlice McDermott sets her story down among the familiar bungalows of twentieth century Long Island. That curl of our hair, the snorting laugh, the gait of our walk, the tall and the small, and the testy temperment. People change.Īnd no matter how we rearrange the furniture around that notion, we can never step aside of the truth. And four children seemed to follow Times change. Alice McDermott sets her story down among the familiar bungalows of twentieth century Long Island. And no matter how we rearrange the furniture around that notion, we can never step aside of the truth. This is my first experience with this author, and I liked the way she did things.more And a question as to whether prayer is nothing more than wishful thinking. The observation that as we grow older, the world becomes less familiar rather than more so. Parents who were 'identically boring', '.the snag of disappointment', '.the failure to connect', '.the sorrow of a lost opportunity'. Of steno pools (shorthand, anyone?), Walter Cronkite, and rabbit ear antennas fashioned with a wire hangers and aluminum foil, it brought back memories aplenty. No dramatic twists or turns, just lives being lived as most of us do. Instead, we have the Keane family - mother, father, and four kids. There was none of that in this book, but I liked it anyway.
#MAC FLEW HIGHER THAN MY HOPES FOR THE FUTURE *AGO SERIAL#
Of steno pools (shorthand, anyone?), Walter Cronkite, and rabbit ear antennas fashioned with a wire hangers and aluminum foil, it brought back memories aplent I love my dark stories of serial killers, disturbing psychological tweaks, and things that go bump in the night. I love my dark stories of serial killers, disturbing psychological tweaks, and things that go bump in the night. 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.more Meanwhile, Clare, the youngest child of their aging parents, seeks to maintain an almost saintly innocence. 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. 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. Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of those decades through the experiences of a middle-class couple, their fou A vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century.Īlice McDermott’s powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Alice McDermott’s powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. A vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century.