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Learn moreAlice McDermott's powerful new novel wittily captures the social, political and spiritual upheavals of the mid-twentieth 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
Alice McDermott is the author of several novels, including The Ninth Hour; Someone; After This; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; and At Weddings and Wakes—all published by FSG. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and elsewhere. For more than two decades she was the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the faculty at the Sewanee Writers Conference. McDermott lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.
Martha Plimpton was only a teenager when she gained fame in the 1980s film The Goonies. Some of her other film credits include Dante’s Inferno, Marvelous, 200 Cigarettes, I Shot Andy Warhol, and Beautiful Girls. She is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble and she appeared Off-Broadway in the 2006 Tony Award-winner Shining City. She has also been nominated for an Emmy. Her television roles include a starring role in Raising Hope and appearances in The Good Wife, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Grey's Anatomy, and 7th Heaven. Plimpton is also an AudioFile Earphones Award Winner. Her narration credits include Alice McDermott's After This, Kim Edwards's The Memory Keeper's Daughter, and Vera B. Williams's A Chair for My Mother and Other Stories.