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.

Author: Alice McDermott
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 07/04/2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781250888389
Language: English