Someone
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Verlag:Harper Collins (US)
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
02.09.2014
Verlag
Harper Collins (US)Seitenzahl
240
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4434-2498-1
A novel that speaks of life as it is daily lived; a crowning achievement by one of the finest American writers
An ordinary life-its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion-lived by an ordinary woman: this is the subject of Someone, Alice McDermott´s extraordinary return, seven years after the publication of After This. Scattered recollections-of childhood, adolescence, motherhood, old age-come together in this transformative narrative, stitched into a vibrant whole by McDermott´s deft, lyrical voice.
Our first glimpse of Marie is as a child: a girl in glasses waiting on a Brooklyn stoop for her beloved father to come home from work. A seemingly innocuous encounter with a young woman named Pegeen sets the bittersweet tone of this remarkable novel. She describes herself as an "amadan," a fool; indeed, soon after her chat with Marie, Pegeen tumbles down her own basement stairs. The magic of McDermott´s novel lies in how it reveals us all as fools for this or that, in one way or another.
Marie´s first heartbreak and her eventual marriage; her brother´s brief stint as a Catholic priest, subsequent loss of faith and eventual breakdown; the Second World War; her parents´ deaths; the births and lives of Marie´s children; the changing world of her Irish-American enclave in Brooklyn-McDermott sketches all of it with sympathy and insight.
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