That Night: A Novel

That Night: A Novel

<p>A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award </p><p>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 <i>That Night</i> is "a moving and captivating novel, both celebration and elegy…a rare and memorable work" (<i>The Cleveland Plain Dealer</i>).</p>