Picador
July 2023
On Sale: July 4, 2023
Featuring: Marie Commeford
240 pages ISBN: 1250888387 EAN: 9781250888389 Kindle: B00CQYBA84 Trade Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
An ordinary lifeโits sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusionโlived by an ordinary, but unforgettable woman: This is the subject of Someone, Alice McDermott’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel.
We first glimpse Marie Commeford as a child: a girl in thick glasses observing her pre-Depression world from a Brooklyn stoop. Through her first heartbreak and eventual marriage; her delicate brother’s brief stint as a Catholic priest and his emotional breakdown; her career as a funeral director’s “consoling angel”; the deaths of her parents and the births of her childrenโwe follow Marie through the changing world of the twentieth century and her Irish-American enclave. Rendered with remarkable empathy and insight, Someone is a novel that speaks of life as it is daily lived, with passion and heartbreak, a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today.
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