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Someone
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An ordinary life--its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion--lived 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 children--we 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.Book details
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- July 4, 2023
- ISBN
- 9781250888389
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- BISAC
- Fiction, Family Life, General, Literary, World Literature, American - 21st Century, Southern, Psychological
- Themes
- 21st Century, Family, Mid-Atlantic, Northeast U.S., Urban, New York, New York, N.Y., South
- Related subjects
- Irish American women, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), Amaericaines d'origine irlandaise, New York (State), New York, Brooklyn, Bildungsromans, Domestic fiction, Fiction