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Someone: A Novel
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Alice McDermott’s ability to write a universal experience is unmatched, and here she does it again, bringing this story to life around a cast of characters that brim with genuine human emotion. This is an exploration of feeling that takes its time to say what it needs to say.
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 emotion...
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