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At Weddings and Wakes, January 1998
Paperback

AT WEDDINGS AND WAKES
By: Alice McDermott

Dial Press Trade Paperback
January 1998
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Featuring: Lucy Dailey
224 pages
ISBN: 0385319851
EAN: 9780385319850
Paperback
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Fiction

Twice a week, Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia with her three children in tow, returning to the Brooklyn home where she grew up and where her stepmother and unmarried sisters still live. Aunt Veronica, with her wounded face and dreams of beauty, drowns her sorrows in drink. Aunt Agnes, an acerbic student of elegance, sips only from the finest crystal as she sees Aunt May, the ex-nun, blossom with a late and unexpected love. And all the while, the children watch, absorbing the legacy of their haunted family.

At once a moving evocation of life’s inexplicable calamities and a magical celebration of childhood and familial love, At Weddings and Wakes is the story of three generations of an Irish-American family through the eyes of its youngest members. With eloquence and grace, master storyteller Alice McDermott transforms everyday experience into the heroic and universal.