After This: A Novel
After This: A Novel by Alice McDermott is a First Edition published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on September 5, 2006. This 288-page work presents a vivid portrait of an American family navigating the complexities of the middle decades of the twentieth century. Through the experiences of Michael and Annie Keane and their four children, the novel explores the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of the era, capturing the nuances of family life against a backdrop of significant cultural change.
Readers will find a rich narrative that delves into the lives of the Keane family as they confront the challenges of the sexual revolution and the Vietnam War. The story highlights the contrasting experiences of the siblings, from the intoxicating and bitter realities faced by Michael and Annie to the more tentative journey of their brother Jacob. Clare, the youngest, embodies a quest for innocence amid the shifting dynamics of their lives. After This intricately portrays the clash between traditional values and modern freedoms, reflecting the joy, sorrow, anger, and love that define family relationships during a transformative period in American history.
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Alice McDermott’s powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of those decades through the experiences of a middle-class couple, their four children, and the changing worlds in which they live.
While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately intoxicating and bitter first fruits of the sexual revolution, their older, more tentative brother, Jacob, lags behind, until he finds himself on the way to Vietnam. Meanwhile, Clare, the youngest child of their aging parents, seeks to maintain an almost saintly innocence. After This, alive with the passions and tragedies of a determining era in our history, portrays the clash of traditional, faith-bound life and modern freedom, while also capturing, with McDermott’s inimitable understanding and grace, the joy, sorrow, anger, and love that underpin, and undermine, what it is to be a family.
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