A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award It is high summer, the early 1960s.
Alice Mc Dermott\'s That Night is ``a moving and captivating novel, both celebration and elegy...a rare and memorable work`` (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)..
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.
But Sheryl\'s widowed mother steps between them, and one moonlit Night Rick and a gang of hoodlums descend upon her quiet neighborhood.
Sheryl and Rick, two Long Island teenagers, share an intense, all-consuming love.
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award It is high summer, the early 1960s
