Someone

The quietest life can resonate the longest. A beautiful, bittersweet masterpiece about a remarkable journey of the heart SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2014 Someone begins on the stoop of a Brooklyn apartment building where Marie is waiting for her father to come home from work. It is the 1920s and in her Irish-American enclave the stories of her neighbours unfold before her short-sighted eyes.As the years pass Marie''s own history plays out against the backdrop of a changing world. This is the story of one life in all its devastating pains and unexpected joys; its bursts of brilliant clarity and moments of profound confusion.Fragments of a curious childhood, of adolescent sexual awakenings, of motherhood and, finally, old age are pieced together in this resonant tale of an unremarkable, unforgettable woman. ______________________ ''A beautiful book'' Sunday Telegraph ''Masterful'' Irish Times ''Exquisite'' New York Times

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• Authors: Alice McDermott, McDermott Alice
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.11.2014
• EAN: 9781408847268
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-4726-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); New York City, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships