Someone : A Novel (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

from EBT1002

I can't remember who recommended that I give Alice McDermott a try but I have now read two of her novels in the past several weeks and I'm delighted to have added her to my list of favorite authors. This, her latest novel, is exquisite in its rendering of an ordinary life in all its extraordinari...

from bookchickdi

No one writes about the Irish American experience better than Alice McDermott. Her National Book Award winning novel, Charming Billy, is the perfect example of that. Her latest novel, Someone, tells the story of Marie, an ordinary Irish American girl growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s. Marie wai...

from tututhefirst

Suffice it to say, this lady can take an absolutely ordinary woman, put her in a dull and lackluster setting, throw in a handful of nondescript characters and spin pure gold as the story of her life. Somewhat slow starting, but at only 231 pages, definitely worth the time spent. It's absolutely m...

from burritapal

As a teenager, Marie has her first boyfriend, who is not a particularly nice fellow, and when he brusquely breaks up with her, she's devastated. Her older brother takes her for a long walk: "I felt him withdraw a little. Something in him, in his muscle or in his bone, withheld. 'Who's going to lo...

from Donna828

Alice McDermott writes like an angel. Her prose is soft and soothing. She can take an ordinary girl like Marie and show the richness behind her everyday life in Brooklyn in the early to mid-20th century. There are moments where characters are blindsided by adversity but "someone" usually comes al...