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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.
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Someone, Alice McDermott
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
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- Titel
- Someone
- Untertitel
- A Novel
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Alice McDermott
- Verlag
- Picador Paper
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 240
- ISBN10
- 1250888387
- ISBN13
- 9781250888389
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Weltliteratur, Frauen, Klassiker, Amerikanische Literatur, Erwachsenwerden, Ehe, New York, 21. Jahrhundert, Südstaaten, Brooklyn
- Beschreibung
- 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.