That night a novel
One summer during the early 1960s, Sheryl and Rick, two Long Island teenagers, share an intense, all-consuming love, but Sheryl's widowed mother steps between them, and one moonlit night Rick and a gang of hoodlums descend upon her quiet neighborhood, driven by Rick's determination to recl...
Main Author: | McDermott, Alice. |
---|---|
Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Picador,
2012, c1987.
|
Edition: | 1st Picador ed. |
Subjects: |
Summary: |
One summer during the early 1960s, Sheryl and Rick, two Long Island teenagers, share an intense, all-consuming love, but Sheryl's widowed mother steps between them, and one moonlit night Rick and a gang of hoodlums descend upon her quiet neighborhood, driven by Rick's determination to reclaim Sheryl. |
---|---|
Physical Description: |
181 p. ; 21 cm. |
Audience: |
Adult |
ISBN: |
9781250881373 031268116X |
Author Notes: |
Her short stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications including Ms., Redbook, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Seventeen, the New York Times and the Washington Post. She has written several novels including A Bigamist's Daughter, At Weddings and Wakes, Child of My Heart, After This, Someone, and The Ninth Hour. That Night was made into a film starring C. Thomas Howell and Juliette Lewis in 1992. She has won several awards including the National Book Award for fiction in 1998 for Charming Billy, a Whiting Writers Award, and the 2008 Corrington Award for Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) |