{"product_id":"that-night-9781250881373","title":"That Night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThat Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Alice McDermott, \"has taken a suburban teenage romance and pregnancy and infused it with the power, the ominousness, and the star-crossed romanticism of a contemporary Romeo and Juliet\" (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlice McDermott's \u003ci\u003eThat Night\u003c\/i\u003e \"is as carefully constructed as a poem, giving off a lustrous glow, and is poignant in the telling\" (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice McDermott\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Ninth Hour\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Someone\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e After This\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Charming Billy\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; \u003ci\u003eAt Weddings and Wakes\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThat Night\u003c\/i\u003e--all published by FSG. \u003ci\u003eThat Night, At Weddings and Wakes\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAfter This\u003c\/i\u003e were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. For more than two decades she was the Richard A. Macksey Professor for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the faculty at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. McDermott lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50718793171218,"sku":"9781250881373","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_38856241-6788-493b-b777-d5500c070c97.jpg?v=1734650434","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/that-night-9781250881373","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}