The Ninth Hour

The Ninth Hour – by Alice McDermott

By Tom Heggen on November 20, 2017

The Ninth Hour is an utterly charming novel about faith, dissent, good works and love. The novel begins when Jim decides to take his own life by releasing gas into his lungs, leaving pregnant Annie on her own to make her way with her not yet born daughter. It is Annie’s good fortune (if there…

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