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Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: Fine. That Night by Alice McDermott. First Edition First Printing. Fiction Literature.

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