Absolution [electronic resource]
Alice McDermott2023
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'One of the finest contemporary novels I've read ... A moral masterpiece ' ANN
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'Her writing has a luminous kind of clarity, a grace and scope that fills me
with wonder' RACHEL JOYCE
'Damning and dazzling ... The story of a Vietnam we never got in history class'
OPRAH DAILY
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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...
Main title:
Absolution [electronic resource] / Alice McDermott
Author:
Alice McDermott, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (368 pages)
Audience:
General / adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781526673589
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
451500
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