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1) Absolution
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 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...
Author
Publisher
Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The "beautifully written" first novel by Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and "one of our finest novelists at work today.""--
"The New York Times Bestselling Author of After This and Charming Billy Elizabeth Connelly, editor at a New York vanity press, sells the dream of publication (admittedly, to writers of questionable talent). Stories of true emotional depth rarely cross her desk. But when a young writer named Tupper Daniels...