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HEAVEN'S GATE.
Alice McDermott's excellent novels "Charming Billy" and "At Weddings and Wakes" had to do with Irish-Americans living modest lives in Queens and on Long Island--this is the world McDermott comes from--and her new novel, "After This" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $24), concerns the same people. As it opens, just after the Second World War, Mary, who works in a typing pool in New York, is coming out of lunchtime Mass:
Leaving the church, she felt the wind rise, felt the pinprick of pebble and grit against her stockings and her cheeks. . . . And all before her, the lunch-hour crowd bent under the April sun and into the bitter April wind, jackets flapping and eyes ...
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