EAN: 9780374613044

ABSOLUTION - ALICE MCDERMOTT KARTONIERT (TB)

A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War  from the renowned winner
of the National Book Award. You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women  I mean. The
wives. American women-American wives-have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the
Vietnam War  but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed  married to a
rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and
mother of three  a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963  the two women form a wary alliance as
they balance the era's mandate to be helpmeets to their ambitious husbands with their own 
inchoate impulse to do good for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later  Charlene's daughter 
spurred by an encounter with an aging Vietnam vet  reaches out to Tricia. Together  they look
back at their time in Saigon  taking wry account of that pivotal year and of Charlene's
altruistic machinations  and discovering as they do how their own lives as women on the
periphery-of politics  of history  of war  of their husbands' convictions-have been shaped and
burdened by the same sort of unintended consequences that followed America's tragic
interference in Southeast Asia. A virtuosic new novel from Alice McDermott  one of our most
observant  most affecting writers-about folly and grace  obligation  sacrifice  and  finally 
the quest for absolution in a broken world.

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