num_pages: 288
description: A vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century.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.
language: English
title: After This
titlecomplete: After This
genres: Audiobook, Book Club, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Family, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 3736
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux