Songs in Ordinary Time | |
Author: | Mary McGarry Morris |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Novel |
Publisher: | Allen Lane |
Release Date: | August 1995 |
Media Type: | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages: | 740 pp (hardback edition) |
Isbn: | 0-670-86014-X |
Isbn Note: | (hardback edition) & 0613121260 (paperback edition) |
Dewey: | 813/.54 20 |
Congress: | PS3563.O874454 S66 1995 |
Oclc: | 31606426 |
Songs in Ordinary Time is the 1995 novel by Mary McGarry Morris, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in June 1997.[1]
A novel set in a small town in Vermont in 1960 offers the story of lonely and vulnerable Marie Fermoyle, her three children, and a dangerous con man.
A made-for-television film adaptation, starring Sissy Spacek and Beau Bridges was released in 2000.[2] The film was directed by Rod Holcomb, screenplay written by Malcolm Macrury, with music by Anthony Marinelli.[3]