That Night by Alice Mcdermott

That Night by Alice Mcdermott

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

It is high summer, 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. That night, driven by Rick's determination to reclaim Sheryl, the young men provoke a violent confrontation, and as fathers step forward to protect their turf, notions of innocence belonging to both sides of the brawl are fractured forever. Alice McDermott's That Night is a moving and captivating novel, both celebration and elegy...a rare and memorable work (The Cleveland Plain Dealer).

Six novels have been written by Alice McDermott. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Redbook, and others.