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Someone

Someone( )
Author: McDermott, Alice
ISBN:978-1-4088-4724-4
Publication Date:Nov 2013
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:Bloomsbury Circus
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $32.99
Book Description:

'At seven, I was a shy child, and comical-looking, with a round flat face and black slits for eyes, thick glasses, black bangs, a straight and serious mouth - a little girl cartoon. With my heart pinned to my father's sleeve' 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...
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Book Details
Pages:240
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Family Life / General
Fiction / City Life
Fiction / Cultural Heritage
Fiction / Coming Of Age
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.5 x 21.6 cm
Book Weight:0.371 Kilograms
Author Biography
McDermott, Alice (Author)
Alice McDermott was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 27, 1953. She received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Oswego in 1975 and an M.A. from the University of New Hampshire in 1978. After graduating college, she got a job reading unsolicited manuscripts for Redbook magazine and did some freelance reading for Esquire. She has taught writing at American University, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of California at San Diego. Currently, she is the Writing Seminars Professor of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Department.

Her short stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications including Ms., Redbook, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Seventeen, the New York Times and the Washington Post. She has written several novels including A Bigamist's Daughter, At Weddings and Wakes, Child of My Heart, After This, Someone, and The Ninth Hour. That Night was made into a film starring C. Thomas Howell and Juliette Lewis in 1992. She has won several awards including the National Book Award for fiction in 1998 for Charming Billy, a Whiting Writers Award, and the 2008 Corrington Award for Literature.

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