That night
Subtitle: a novel
By: Alice McDermott
Edition: First Picador edition.
Publisher: PICADOR, Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Picador
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780312681166
Subjects: FICTION / General; Suburban life; Love in adolescence; Parent and teenager; Problem youth; Fiction
Description: "A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. It is high summer, the early 1960s. Sheryl and Rick, two Long Island teenagers, share an intense, all-consuming love. But Sheryl's widowed mother steps between them, and one moonlit night Rick and a gang of hoodlums descend upon her quiet neighborhood. That night, driven by Rick's determination to reclaim Sheryl, the young men provoke a violent confrontation, and as fathers step forward to protect their turf, notions of innocence belonging to both sides of the brawl are fractured forever. Alice McDermott's That Night is 'a moving and captivating novel, both celebration and elegy...a rare and memorable work' (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)"--