Someone : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9781427237835
- ISBN: 1427237832
- Physical Description: 1 audio media player (approximately 8 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2013]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from Playaway label. "HD LIGHT." Release date supplied by publisher. Previously released by Macmillan Audio. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kate Reading. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Irish American women -- Fiction Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. Audiobooks. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Sitka.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 0 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Morden Library | PA F McDe (Text) | 35864001840428 | Audio | Volume hold | Available | - |
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The story of a Brooklyn-born woman's life - her family, her neighborhood, her daily trials and triumphs - from childhood to old age. - Findaway World Llc
A fully realized portrait of one womans life in all its complexity, by the National Book Awardâwinning author An ordinary lifeâits sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusionâlived by an ordinary woman: this is the subject of Someone, Alice McDermotts extraordinary return, seven years after the publication of After This. Scattered recollectionsâof childhood, adolescence, motherhood, old ageâcome together in this transformative narrative, stitched into a vibrant whole by McDermotts 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. Pegeen describes herself as an âamadan,â a fool; indeed, soon after her chat with Marie, Pegeen tumbles down her own basement stairs. The magic of McDermotts novel lies in how it reveals us all as fools for this or that, in one way or another. Maries first heartbreak and her eventual marriage; her brothers 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 Maries children; the changing world of her Irish-American enclave in BrooklynâMcDermott sketches all of it with sympathy and insight. This is a novel that speaks of life as it is daily lived; a crowning achievement by one of the finest American writers at work today.