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Author McDermott, Alice, author.

Title Absolution / Alice McDermott.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
2 holds on first copy returned of 20 copies
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3072976~S1
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Description 324 pages ; 22 cm
Summary Absolution is one of the finest contemporary novels I've read. It is a moral masterpiece.' ANN PATCHETT 'Her writing has a luminous kind of clarity, a grace and scope that fills me with wonder' RACHEL JOYCE 'Damning and dazzling, this is the story of a Vietnam we never got in history class' OPRAH DAILY You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. The two women form a wary alliance as they struggle to balance the pressure to be respectable wives for their ambitious husbands, with their own dubious impulses to “do good” for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later, Charlene's daughter, spurred by an encounter with an aging Vietnam veteran, reaches out to Tricia. Together, they look back at their time in Saigon, discovering how their lives as women on the periphery - of politics, of history, of war, of their husbands' convictions - have been shaped and burdened by the unintended consequences of America's tragic interference in Southeast Asia.
Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction.
Wives -- Fiction.
Genre Novels.
ISBN 9780374610487 hc
0374610487 hc
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