At Weddings and Wakes

by Alice McDermott | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0747563942 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Anne-Elliott of Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom on 7/29/2014
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Journal Entry 1 by Anne-Elliott from Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Book Description:

Twice a week, Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia with her three children in tow, returning to the Brooklyn home where she grew up, and where her stepmother and unmarried sisters still live. Aunt Veronica, with her wounded face and dreams of beauty, drowns her sorrows in drink. Aunt Agnes, an acerbic student of elegance, sips only from the finest crystal as she sees Aunt May, the ex-nun, blossom with a late and unexpected love. And all the while, the children watch, absorbing the legacy of their haunted family. At once a moving evocation of life's inexplicable calamities and a magical celebration of childhood and familial love, AT WEDDINGS AND WAKES is the story of three generations of an Irish-American family through the eyes of its youngest members. With eloquence and grace, master storyteller Alice McDermott transforms everyday experience into the heroic and universal.

Journal Entry 2 by Anne-Elliott at Christchurch Priory in Christchurch, Dorset United Kingdom on Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Released 9 yrs ago (8/6/2014 UTC) at Christchurch Priory in Christchurch, Dorset United Kingdom

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