Alice McDermott

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Alice McDermott

American author

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Catholic imagination
Catholic imagination in literature
Alice McDermott’s novels Charming Billy (1998), The Ninth Hour (2017), and Absolution (2023) reveal a middle-class, urban, Irish-American sense of the Catholic imagination. In Dana Gioia’s poetry collections Pity the Beautiful (2012) and Meet Me at the Lighthouse (2023), he writes of Mexican and Italian…
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Alice McDermott’s novels Charming Billy (1998), The Ninth Hour (2017), and Absolution (2023) reveal a middle-class, urban, Irish-American sense of the Catholic imagination. In Dana Gioia’s poetry collections Pity the Beautiful (2012) and Meet Me at the Lighthouse (2023), he writes of Mexican and Italian…
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