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Someone

- A Novel

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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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781250055361
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 240
  • Udgivet:
  • 7. oktober 2014
  • Størrelse:
  • 138x210x19 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 212 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: Ukendt - mangler pt.

Beskrivelse af 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.

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