
After This
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Narrated by:
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Martha Plimpton
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By:
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Alice McDermott
Alice McDermott's powerful new novel wittily captures the social, political and spiritual upheavals of the mid-20th century through the story of a family, and the changing world 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 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.
©2006 Alice McDermott (P)2006 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLCListeners also enjoyed...




















Critic reviews
- Audie Award Finalist, Literary Fiction, 2007
"[McDermott] flawlessly encapsulates an era in the private moments of one family's life." (Publishers Weekly)
"Word by word, metaphor by metaphor, McDermott writes the most exquisitely perceptive and atmospheric fiction published today." (Booklist)
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What disappointed you about After This?
The whole book sets the context with imagery and style but never delivers on story or characters. The book describes one scene after another and moves forward with very brief and vague accounts of the events.Has After This turned you off from other books in this genre?
NoWhich scene was your favorite?
None. Kept reading thinking it would get better but it never did.You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
Good technical writing skills of the author. Her prior works must be well received: this one seems like an experiment.Context for your own story
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just didn't get it
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
AFTER THIS is very well written and narrated. There is not a false note anywhere.For those of us who grew up in a similar milieu, this book is a "remembrance of things past". McDermott writes fine social histories populated with 3 dimensional characters, many with their own back-stories.
I have often turned to fiction when studying history. Yes, we need test books, lectures, articles,etc., but I find that by reading different authors who do diligent research in their genre are a great source of ancillary information and entertainment. Back door history at its best can be a great teaching/learning tool. This is a history narration I understand. I lived it. Well done Ms. McDermott and Ms.Plimpton!
What other book might you compare After This to and why?
THE EDGE OF SADNESS by Edwin O'Connor. Boston Irish in the 1950's. Pulitzer Prize winner.Mary Gordon, Gail, Godwin, Madeline L'Engle - her personal history.
Have you listened to any of Martha Plimpton’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
She gives a wonderful performance in this book. I will be looking for other narrations.AFTER THIS, I want to read or listen to more!
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Wonderful portrait of a family
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