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Songs in Ordinary Time by Morris, Mary McGarry is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Songs in Ordinary Time about?

It's the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. Maria Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeenmdash;involved with a young priest; Norm, sixteenmdash;hotheaded and idealistic; and Benny, twelvemdash;isolated and misunderstood, and so desperate for his mother's happiness that he hides the deadly truth he knows about Duvall. We also meet Sam Fermoyle, the children's alcoholic father; Sam's brother-in-law, who makes anonymous "love" calls from the bathroom of his failing appliance store; and the Klubock family, whomdash;in contrast to the Fermoylesmdash;live an orderly life in the house next door.brbrSongs in Ordinary Time is a masterful epic of the everyday, illuminating the kaleidoscope of lives that tell the compelling story of this unforgettably family. brwords : 278434

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Morris, Mary McGarry
Publisher
Penguin Group (USA)
Published
1995
Language
EN
ISBN
9780140244823
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Historical Fiction
Rating
3.68 / 5 (27,432 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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