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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 2013
On Sale: September 10, 2013
240 pages
ISBN: 0374281092
EAN: 9780374281090
Kindle: B00CQYBA84
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Fiction
A fully realized portrait of one woman’s life in
all its complexity, by the National Book Award–winning
author An ordinary life—its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its
bursts of clarity and moments of confusion—lived by an
ordinary woman: this is the subject of Someone, Alice
McDermott’s extraordinary return, seven years after the
publication of After This. Scattered recollections—of
childhood, adolescence, motherhood, old age—come together in
this transformative narrative, stitched into a vibrant whole
by McDermott’s deft, lyrical voice. Our first glimpse of Marie is as a child: a girl in glasses
waiting on a Brooklyn stoop for her beloved father to come
home from work. A seemingly innocuous encounter with a young
woman named Pegeen sets the bittersweet tone of this
remarkable novel. Pegeen describes herself as an “amadan,” a
fool; indeed, soon after her chat with Marie, Pegeen tumbles
down her own basement stairs. The magic of
McDermott’s novel lies in how it reveals us all as fools for
this or that, in one way or another. Marie’s first heartbreak and her eventual marriage; her
brother’s brief stint as a Catholic priest, subsequent loss
of faith, and eventual breakdown; the Second World War; her
parents’ deaths; the births and lives of Marie’s children;
the changing world of her Irish-American enclave in
Brooklyn—McDermott sketches all of it with sympathy and
insight. This is a novel that speaks of life as it is daily
lived; a crowning achievement by one of the finest American
writers at work today.
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