Text

Someone

---

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.

---

Availability

SMAC-0457

F MCD s

Library SMA Avicenna Cinere

Available

Detail Information

Series Title

-

Call Number

F McD s

Publisher

New York : Picador., 2013

Collation

231 hlm. ; 21 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781250055361

Classification

F

Content Type

text

Media Type

-

Carrier Type

-

Edition

-

Subject(s)

Irish American women--Fiction
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

Alice McDermott

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment