Absolution
(Large Print)
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Published
[Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company, 2023.
Format
Large Print
Edition
Large print edition.
ISBN
9798885794794
Physical Desc
453 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Falmouth - Main Library - New | LARGE PRINT McDermott, A. Absolution | Checked Out | May 7, 2024 |
Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Brewster Ladies' Library - Large Print, New | LP FICTION MCDERMOTT | Checked Out | May 4, 2024 |
Chatham Eldredge Public Library - Adult | LP McD | In Transit | |
Eastham Public Library - New | LP FICTION MCD | Checked Out | May 11, 2024 |
Edgartown Public Library - New | LP FICTION MCDERMOTT | Checked Out | May 2, 2024 |
Harwich Brooks Free Library - Large Print, New | LP FICTION MCD | Checked Out | May 9, 2024 |
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Published
[Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company, 2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9798885794794
Notes
General Note
Regular print version previously published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Description
American women - American wives - have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands with their own inchoate impulse to "do good" for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later, Charlene's daughter, spurred by an encounter with an aging Vietnam vet, reaches out to Tricia. Together, they look back at their time in Saigon, taking wry account of that pivotal year and of Charlene's altruistic machinations, and discovering how their own lives as women on the periphery - of politics, of history, of war, of their husbands' convictions - have been shaped and burdened by the same sort of unintended consequences that followed America's tragic interference in Southeast Asia.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
McDermott, A. (2023). Absolution (Large print edition.). Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McDermott, Alice. 2023. Absolution. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McDermott, Alice. Absolution Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)McDermott, Alice. Absolution Large print edition., Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company, 2023.
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