by Mary McGarry Morris · Viking · tapa dura · ISBN 9780670879076
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«Songs in Ordinary Time» is the literary fiction novel by Mary McGarry Morris, published by Viking in hardback (752 pages, in English).
Set in the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont, the story follows Maria Fermoyle, a divorced woman raising her three children alone who becomes the victim of a con man. The novel interweaves the lives of the Fermoyles, a family marked by poverty and secrets, with those of their neighbours, the Klubocks.
The work was originally published in 1995; this Viking edition is from 1997. It was an Oprah's Book Club selection.
Recommended for book clubs and readers of literary fiction interested in family relationships and domestic secrets.
Mary McGarry Morris is an American novelist, short story author and playwright from New England. She uses its towns as settings for her works. In 1991, Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times described Morris as "one of the most skillful new writers at work in America today"; The Washington Post has described her as a "superb storyteller"; and The Miami Herald has called her "one of our finest American writers".
