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Songs in ordinary time, a novel, Mary McGarry Morris

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Songs in ordinary time, a novel, Mary McGarry Morris

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Songs in ordinary time

Responsibility statement

Mary McGarry Morris

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Accelerated Reader, UG, 4.8, 42, 19885

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"It's the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. Marie Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen-involved with a young priest; Norm, sixteen-hotheaded and idealistic; and Benjy, twelve-isolated and misunderstood, and so desperate for his mother's happiness that he hides the deadly truth he knows about Duvall. We also meet Sam Fermoyle, the children's alcoholic father; Sam's brother-in-law, who makes anonymous "love" calls from the bathroom of his failing appliance store; and the Klubock family, who-in contrast to the Fermoyles-live an orderly life in the house next door."--Jacket

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