Mother of Sorrows

Richard McCann

first published 2005 Pantheon, 2005 hardcover 208 pages

With the breadth and cumulative force of a novel, Mother of Sorrows presents ten interwoven stories of an American family starting out in the post—World War II suburbs of Washington, D.C., a world of identical brick houses and sunstruck, treeless lawns, a world of initial hopefulness from which shame and loss have seemingly been banished. This is the story of two adolescent brothers whose father has suddenly died,...

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Mother of Sorrows edition · 2011 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9781299042803
Mother of Sorrows paperback · 2006 · Vintage · 208 pages · 9781400096213
Mother of Sorrows hardcover · 2005 · Recorded Books
Mother of Sorrows hardcover · 2005 · Pantheon · 208 pages · 9780679411765

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