Understanding Alice McDermott

By tracing the shifting themes and motifs through eight novels, uncollected short stories, and essays published during McDermott's fruitful career, Understanding Alice McDermott provides a window into the decades-long development of a contemporary master.

About the author

Margaret Hallissy is a professor of English at Long Island University Post in Brookville, New York. She is the author of Understanding Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama; Reading Irish-American Fiction: The Hyphenated Self; A Companion to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; Clean Maids, True Wives, Steadfast Widows: Chaucer's Women and Medieval Codes of Conduct; and Venomous Woman: Fear of the Female in Literature.

Summary

An Irish American Catholic born and raised in New York, Alice McDermott uses multiple identities and a distinctive, nonchronological narrative style to create an unmistakable trademark. Understanding Alice McDermott begins with a brief biography and transitions into a linear inquiry of McDermott's published works.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Hallissy
• Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781643360270
• ISBN: 978-1-64336-027-0
• No. of pages: 148
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies