At Weddings and Wakes

by Alice McDermott

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Sipping effortlessly between past and present, between memory and observation, "At Weddings And Wakes" tells the story of three generations of an Irish-Catholic family through the eyes of its younger members. At once a haunting evocation of life's inexplicable calamities and a magical celebration of childhood and familial love, "At Weddings And Wakes" transforms every experience into the heroic and the universal. It is a testament to the remarkable gift of a literary master writing at the peak of her story telling powers.
  • ISBN10 0440215234
  • ISBN13 9780440215233
  • Publish Date 2 February 1993 (first published 1 April 1992)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Little, Brown & Company
  • Imprint Warner Books
  • Format Paperback
  • Language English