Binding: Paperback
Description: In That Night New York Times bestselling author Alice Mc Dermott "has taken a suburban teenage romance and pregnancy and infused it with the power the ominousness and the star - crossed romanticism of a contemporary Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Tribune) A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award It is high summer the early 1960s. Sheryl and Rick two Long Island teenagers share an intense all - consuming love. But Sheryl's widowed mother steps between them and one moonlit night Rick and a gang of hoodlums descend upon her quiet neighborhood. That night driven by Rick's determination to reclaim Sheryl the young men provoke a violent confrontation and as fathers step forward to protect their turf notions of innocence belonging to both sides of the brawl are fractured forever. Alice Mc Dermott's That Night is as carefully constructed as a poem giving off a lustrous glow and is poignant in the telling (People).
Title: That Night A Novel
Author(s): Mcdermott Alice
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250881373
Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/7/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction