There is a scene early in After This, Alice McDermott’s latest novel, set in the parking lot of a public beach on Long Island. The time is Sunday morning, in mid-September, in the late 1950s or early 1960s. John and Mary Keane, the Irish-American parents of three young children, have decided to take a short car trip to the nearby shore. A hurricane is moving up the coas (...)
October 20, 2006
Books
Clement & Loving
After ThisAlice McDermottFarrar, Straus and Giroux, $24, 279 pp.
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