At Weddings and Wakes

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At Weddings and Wakes Author: Alice McDermott Format: Audio Download Audio Length: 3 hours Rating: Retail Price: $16.95 Price: $8.95 You save $8.00 (47%)       Publisher's Summary: Experience the bittersweet, lovable, all-too-human story of an Irish-Catholic family on Long Island, as told through the eyes of its youngest members. On their weekly visits with their mother to her family's Brooklyn apartment, the children are ushered into an airless world of memory, recrimination, and eternal repartee. Here, in the daily routines of their grandmother and aunts, they are witnesses to the ebb and flow of drama and melodrama, bitterness and affection. More than any other contemporary writer, Alice McDermott has the ability to transform everyday experience into the heroic, poetic, and universal. This heartbreakingly tender, sad, and funny novel represents a new level of achievement for this outstanding writer.

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