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Alice McDermott is the author of five previous novels including Charming Billy, winner of the l998 National Book Award. Her novel At Weddings and Wakes was a New York Times bestseller in l992 and That Night was short-listed for the National Book Award in 1987. McDermott is known for her prismatic prose and for her compelling portraits of the variegated American family. Her new novel, After This, evokes the social, political, and spiritual upheaval of the late twentieth century through the experiences of a middle-class couple and their four children.