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Mcdermotts brief seventh novel child of my heart, 2002, etc. A fully realized portrait of one womans life in all its complexity, by the national book awardwinning author an ordinary lifeits. It is the 1920s and in her irishamerican enclave the stories of her neighbours unfold before her shortsighted eyes. And they would know as well how to choose their words to tell a kinder tale, alice mcdermott writes in someone, her incantatory new novel, in which the landscape of memory is a. They belong to alice mcdermott, whose novels about ordinary irish catholic families living on her native long island strike universal themes of love, longing and loss. An ordinary lifeits sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusionlived by an ordinary woman. Someone hawaii state public library system overdrive. How does the depiction of irish identity and family life in someone compare to that in similar worlds youve explored in other novels by alice mcdermott.
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