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Collection: Adult Fiction
Call Number: F
Author: Sullivan, J. Courtney
Title: Saints for all occasions
Remainder of title: a novel
Summary, etc. note: "A sweeping, unforgettable novel fromThe New York Timesbest-selling author ofMaine, about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that drives them apart. Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their new life in Boston and besotted with the fashionable dresses and dance halls on Dudley Street. But when Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora is forced to come up with a plan--a decision with repercussions they are both far too young to understand. Fifty years later, Nora is the matriarch of a big Catholic family with four grown children: John, a successful, if opportunistic, political consultant; Bridget, privately preparing to have a baby with her girlfriend; Brian, at loose ends after a failed baseball career; and Patrick, Nora's favorite, the beautiful boy who gives her no end of heartache. Estranged from her sister and cut off from the world, Theresa is a cloistered nun, living in an abbey in rural Vermont. Until, after decades of silence, a sudden death forces Nora and Theresa to confront the choices they made so long ago. A graceful, supremely moving novel from one of our most beloved writers,Saints for All Occasionsexplores the fascinating, funny, and sometimes achingly sad ways a secret at the heart of one family both breaks them and binds them together"--

International Standard Book Number: 9780307959577 (hardback)
International Standard Book Number: 9780307949806 (paperback)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9780307959584 (ebook)
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Classification number: PS3619.U43
Item number: S25 2017
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 813/.6
Source of number: bisacsh
Classification number: FIC045000
Classification number: FIC008000
Classification number: FIC044000
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: J. Courtney Sullivan.
Edition statement: First Edition.
Place of publication: New York, NY
Name of publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Random House
Date of publication: 2017
Projected publication date: 1706
: New York :
: Alfred A. Knopf,
: 2017.
Extent: 335 Pages
: rdacontent
: text
: txt
: rdamedia
: unmediated
: n
: rdacarrier
: volume
: nc
Summary, etc. note: "A sweeping novel about two sisters--one the matriarch of a boisterous Irish Catholic family, the other a cloistered nun, hidden from the world--and the secret that drove them apart"--
: Provided by publisher.
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: B & T
Purchase price: 26.95
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Subject: Domestic fiction.
Subject: Family Life
Subject: Sagas
Subject: Contemporary Women
: acquire
: 1 shelf copy
: policy default
: xk07 2016-12-02
: xk07 2016-12-02 ONIX (telework) to CIP
: Zakiya Harris; phone: 212-572-2132; email: zharris@penguinrandomhouse.com; bc: nlatimer@penguinrandomhouse.com

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