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Mary and O’Neil

A Novel in Stories

By Justin Cronin

By Justin Cronin

By Justin Cronin

By Justin Cronin

By Justin Cronin
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By Justin Cronin
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Paperback $16.00

Jan 29, 2002 | 256 Pages

Ebook $11.99

Jun 29, 2004 | 256 Pages

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Mar 12, 2013 | 515 Minutes

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    About Mary and O’Neil

    Mary and O’Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where they’d come to teach, each had suffered a profound loss that had not healed. How likely was it that they could learn to trust, much less love, again?

    Justin Cronin’s poignant debut traces the lives of Mary Olson and O’Neil Burke, two vulnerable young teachers who rediscover in each other a world alive with promise and hope. From the formative experiences of their early adulthood to marriage, parenthood, and beyond, this novel in stories illuminates the moments of grace that enable Mary and O’Neil to make peace with the deep emotional legacies that haunt them: the sudden, mysterious death of O’Neil’s parents, Mary’s long-ago decision to end a pregnancy, O’Neil’s sister’s battle with illness and a troubled marriage. Alive with magical nuance and unexpected encounters, Mary and O’Neil celebrates the uncommon in common lives, and the redemptive power of love.

    About Mary and O’Neil

    Mary and O’Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where they’d come to teach, each had suffered a profound loss that had not healed. How likely was it that they could learn to trust, much less love, again?

    Justin Cronin’s poignant debut traces the lives of Mary Olson and O’Neil Burke, two vulnerable young teachers who rediscover in each other a world alive with promise and hope. From the formative experiences of their early adulthood to marriage, parenthood, and beyond, this novel in stories illuminates the moments of grace that enable Mary and O’Neil to make peace with the deep emotional legacies that haunt them: the sudden, mysterious death of O’Neil’s parents, Mary’s long-ago decision to end a pregnancy, O’Neil’s sister’s battle with illness and a troubled marriage. Alive with magical nuance and unexpected encounters, Mary and O’Neil celebrates the uncommon in common lives, and the redemptive power of love.

    About Mary and O’Neil

    Mary and O’Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where they’d come to teach, each had suffered a profound loss that had not healed. How likely was it that they could learn to trust, much less love, again?

    Justin Cronin’s poignant debut traces the lives of Mary Olson and O’Neil Burke, two vulnerable young teachers who rediscover in each other a world alive with promise and hope. From the formative experiences of their early adulthood to marriage, parenthood, and beyond, this novel in stories illuminates the moments of grace that enable Mary and O’Neil to make peace with the deep emotional legacies that haunt them: the sudden, mysterious death of O’Neil’s parents, Mary’s long-ago decision to end a pregnancy, O’Neil’s sister’s battle with illness and a troubled marriage. Alive with magical nuance and unexpected encounters, Mary and O’Neil celebrates the uncommon in common lives, and the redemptive power of love.

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    The Passage (TV Tie-in Edition)
    The City of Mirrors
    The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy)
    The Summer Guest
    See all books by Justin Cronin

    Also by Justin Cronin

    The Passage (TV Tie-in Edition)
    The City of Mirrors
    The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy)
    The Summer Guest
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    About Justin Cronin

    Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors, Mary and O’Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest. Other honors for his writing… More about Justin Cronin

    About Justin Cronin

    Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors, Mary and O’Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest. Other honors for his writing… More about Justin Cronin

    About Justin Cronin

    Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors, Mary and O’Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest. Other honors for his writing… More about Justin Cronin

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Contemporary Romance

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Dial Press Trade Paperback
    Jan 29, 2002 | 256 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780385333597

    Category: Literary Fiction | Contemporary Romance

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Delta
    Jun 29, 2004 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780440335061

    Category: Literary Fiction | Contemporary Romance | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Mar 12, 2013 | 515 Minutes | ISBN 9780804126656

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    Praise

    “An astonishingly good first novel…fully engaging from the
    first paragraph. What a gift: to be able to live
    alongside these people for a while.”
    –Ann Patchett, Chicago Tribune

    “A literary love story…about the fragility of good fortune
    and the accidental ways of finding happiness.”
    –USA Today

    “Justin Cronin must have been a novelist in an earlier life. What
    else could account for the mature insight and the beautifully
    controlled technique we find in his debut novel?…Cronin
    succeeds, touchingly and tenderly, in portraying life
    itself as a triumph of hope over experience.”
    –The Boston Globe

    “Justin Cronin’s Mary and O’Neil is that rare thing: a wholly
    engrossing story of the ordinary life.”
    –Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls’ Rising

    Awards

    Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for First Fiction WINNER 2002

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