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Someone (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
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That Night (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
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Absolution
Alice McDermott
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Why I Like This Story (Hardcover)
Jackson R. Bryer; Contributions by A.R. Gurney, Alan Cheuse, Alice McDermott, Andre Dubus, …
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Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite
American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers
to the library or bookstore to read - or re-read - the stories
selected. On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he
asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can
read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by
forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American
short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are
personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story
selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the
essay, about what elements of fiction he or she values. Among the
writers whose stories are discussed are such American masters as
James, Melville, Hemingway, O'Connor, Fitzgerald, Porter, Carver,
Wright, Updike, Bellow, Salinger,Malamud, and Welty; but the book
also includes pieces on stories by canonical but lesser-known
practitioners such as Andre Dubus, Ellen Glasgow, Kay Boyle,
Delmore Schwartz, George Garrett, Elizabeth Tallent, William Goyen,
Jerome Weidman, Peter Matthiessen, Grace Paley, William H. Gass,
and Jamaica Kincaid, and relative newcomers such as Lorrie Moore,
Kirstin Valdez Quade, Phil Klay, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Edward P.
Jones. Why I Like This Story will send readers to the library or
bookstore to read or re-read the stories selected. Among the
contributors to the book are Julia Alvarez, Andrea Barrett, Richard
Bausch, Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, George Garrett, William H. Gass,
Julia Glass, Doris Grumbach, Jane Hamilton, Jill McCorkle, Alice
McDermott, Clarence Major, Howard Norman, Annie Proulx, Joan
Silber, Elizabeth Spencer, and Mako Yoshikawa. Editor Jackson R.
Bryer is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of
Maryland.
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After This (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
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R342
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On a wild, windy April day in Manhattan, when Mary first meets John
Keane, she cannot know what lies ahead of her. A marriage, a
fleeting season of romance, and the birth of four children will
bring John and Mary to rest in the safe embrace of a traditional
Catholic life in the suburbs. But neither Mary nor John, distracted
by memories and longings, can feel the wind that is buffeting their
children, leading them in directions beyond their parents' control.
Michael and his sister Annie are caught up in the sexual
revolution. Jacob, brooding and frail, is drafted to Vietnam. And
the youngest, Clare, commits a stunning transgression after a
childhood spent pleasing her parents. As John and Mary struggle to
hold on to their family and their faith, Alice McDermott weaves an
elegant, unforgettable portrait of a world in flux-and of the
secrets and sorrows, anger and love, that lie at the heart of every
family.
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Someone (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
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A fully realized portrait of one woman's life in all its
complexity, by the National Book Award-winning author
An ordinary life--its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts
of clarity and moments of confusion--lived by an ordinary woman:
this is the subject of "Someone," Alice McDermott's extraordinary
return, seven years after the publication of "After This."
Scattered recollections--of childhood, adolescence, motherhood, old
age--come together in this transformative narrative, stitched into
a vibrant whole by McDermott's 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 "amadan," a fool; indeed, soon after her
chat with Marie, Pegeen tumbles down her own basement stairs. The
magic of McDermott's novel lies in how it reveals us all as fools
for this or that, in one way or another.
Marie's first heartbreak and her eventual marriage; her brother's
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 Marie's children; the changing world of her
Irish-American enclave in Brooklyn--McDermott 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.
Alice McDermott tells the story of Billy Lynch within the complex
matrix of a tightly knit Irish American community, in a voice that
is resonant and full of deep feeling. Charming Billy is a
masterpiece about the unbreakable bonds of memory and desire.
"Charming Billy" is the winner of the 1998 National Book Award for
Fiction.
Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real
editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth
watches the real world--of real struggles, passion, pain, and
love--spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her
with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And
suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban
professional slumber--by a man's real touch, by a real story in
search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade
of all--in Alice McDermott's luminous novel of memory, revelation,
and desire.
In Alice McDermott's first work of fiction since her best-selling, National Book Award-winning Charming Billy, a woman recalls her fifteenth summer with the wry and bittersweet wisdom of hindsight.
The beautiful child of older parents, raised on the eastern end of Long Island, Theresa is her town's most sought-after babysitter--cheerful, poised, an effortless storyteller, a wonder with children and animals. Among her charges this fateful summer is Daisy, her younger cousin, who has come to spend a few quiet weeks in this bucolic place. While Theresa copes with the challenge presented by the neighborhood's waiflike children, the tumultuous households of her employers, the attentions of an aging painter, and Daisy's fragility of body and spirit, her precocious, tongue-in-check sense of order is tested as she makes the perilous crossing into adulthood. In her deeply etched rendering of all that happened that seemingly idyllic season, McDermott once again peers into the depths of everyday life with inimitable insight and grace.
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