Title : Melody of Ordinary Time - Mary McGarry Morris - book

Summary :

A rich work, a distillation of humanity, in which we see the ravages of material and moral poverty, unrequited love and unhappy marriages.

Summer 1960, Atkinson, an ordinary small town in Vermont.
Divorced from a pathetic drunk who still occasionally knocks on her door at night, Marie Fermoyle is exhausted trying to make ends meet, driven by a fierce ambition for her three children and driven by a pride that prevents her from accepting help from anyone. Her loneliness will make her a prime target for Omar Duvall, a pathetic, smooth-talking crook, who shows up at her house one evening...
Oscillating between anger and resignation, mired in their adolescent malaise, neither Alice nor Norm, the two eldest, will be able to oppose Omar, whose disturbing personality will gradually reveal itself. Eager to see his mother finally happy, young Benjy will stubbornly keep his terrible secret: the very day Duvall arrived, he saw him stab a man in the forest...
Through the story of the Fermoyles, to which that of their relatives and neighbors is inextricably linked, Mary McGarry Morris has written the chronicle of a small community where hope and fear, lies and shame, obsession with sin and piety clash, where an incessant struggle is played out between the thirst for success and the bitterness of failure.
The strength of the plot and characters, the beauty of the style, the heavy and captivating atmosphere that emerges from the novel make it a work apart, among the most remarkable in contemporary American literature.

• EAN : 9782714435897
  
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