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Someone: A Novel

By Alice McDermott
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By Alice McDermott
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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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