That Night Av Alice Mcdermott

<p><b>In <i>That Night</i>, <i>New York Times</i> 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¿ (<i>Chicago Tribune</i>)<br><br>A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award</b><br><br>It 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. <br><br>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. <br><br>Alice McDermott¿s <i>That Night</i> ¿is as carefully constructed as a poem, giving off a lustrous glow, and is poignant in the tel