03530cam a2200493 4500 1111840163 TxAuBib 20240111120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780374610494 0374610495 B0BTX6JH7S Amazon e870ed61-1af5-4838-bd32-430b15ca1b24 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9596530 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib McDermott, Alice. Absolution [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1069kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. award winning writer. National Book Award. The Quiet American. Women's Fiction. Southeast Asia. white feminism. Graham Greene. Colonialism. Vietnam War. marriage. Veteran. saigon. 1960s. HTML:<p><b>AN INSTANT <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br /> <b>Named a Best Book of the Year by <i>Time</i>, <i>Esquire</i>, <i>Good Housekeeping</i>, <i>Kirkus Reviews</i>, <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, NPR, <i>Oprah Daily</i>, <i>Real Simple</i>, and <i>Vogue</i></b><br /> <b>A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.<br /></b><br /> <i>You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives.</i><br /> American women—American wives—have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in <i>Absolution</i> they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands with their own inchoate impulse to "do good" for the people of Vietnam.<br /> Sixty years later, Charlene's daughter, spurred by an encounter with an aging Vietnam vet, reaches out to Tricia. Together, they look back at their time in Saigon, taking wry account of that pivotal year and of Charlene's altruistic machinations, and discovering how their own lives as women on the periphery—of politics, of history, of war, of their husbands' convictions—have been shaped and burdened by the same sort of unintended consequences that followed America's tragic interference in Southeast Asia.<br /> A virtuosic new novel from Alice McDermott, one of our most observant, most affecting writers, about folly and grace, obligation, sacrifice, and, finally, the quest for absolution in a broken world.</p>. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-01-10 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e870ed61-1af5-4838-bd32-430b15ca1b24&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e870ed61-1af5-4838-bd32-430b15ca1b24&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e870ed61-1af5-4838-bd32-430b15ca1b24&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXGID