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At Weddings and Wakes
At Weddings and Wakes
Author: Alice McDermott
Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia twice a week with her three children in tow, returning to the Brooklyn home where she grew up, and where her stepmother and unmarried sisters still live. The children quietly observe Aunt Veronica, who drowns her sorrows in drink. Aunt Agnes, a caustic career woman, and finally Aunt May, the ex-nun, blossoming with a ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780312429430
ISBN-10: 0312429436
Publication Date: 11/24/2009
Pages: 224
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Picador
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Helpful Score: 3
A really marvelous book. The story of a family, told from different points of view, with some deft time-shifting. Beautifully written.
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Helpful Score: 3
A female "Angela's Ashes."
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Helpful Score: 3
Try to read this when and where you will be free of distractions, because in order to grasp fully the beauty of McDermott's style, you have to pay attention. She writes a bit like Henry James, with long and somewhat complicated sentences. Nevertheless, the story and the way it is told is both moving and memorable. You will feel right at home identifying with the children through whose eyes the tale develops.
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Helpful Score: 1
Life in an Irish family as seen and told by the children.
Kind of a comfy read,and very interesting.
Characters are real and at the end you don't want to let them go
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MediumDebbi avatar reviewed At Weddings and Wakes on + 92 more book reviews
I started this because I read Charming Billy and really enjoyed it. This one just didn't grab me. It seemed very stilted and choppy.
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Wonderfully written story of adult life from a child's perspective. Many varied and interesting characters.
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NY Times Best Seller
Book of the Month Club selection.
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The author writes with beautiful flowing words. The story is told from the point of view of the Dailey children but, for me, that didn't work well. I would have expected more childlike thoughts & feelings. I feel like I didn't get to know the characters well. However, there is a lot of praise for the book so maybe it just wasn't my cup of tea. So it goes.
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"A moving evocation of life's inexplicaable calamities and a magical celebration of childhood and familial love...the story of three generations of an Irish-American family through the eyes of its youngest members.
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Enjoyable reading.


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