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The Ninth Hour (Paperback): Alice McDermott The Ninth Hour (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
R521 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R79 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Someone (Paperback): Alice McDermott Someone (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
R521 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R79 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Absolution: Alice McDermott Absolution
Alice McDermott
R757 R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Save R180 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
At Weddings and Wakes (Paperback): Alice McDermott At Weddings and Wakes (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
R521 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R79 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
That Night (Paperback): Alice McDermott That Night (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
R498 R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Save R74 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Charming Billy (Paperback): Alice McDermott Charming Billy (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
R521 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R79 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
What about the Baby? - Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction (Paperback): Alice McDermott What about the Baby? - Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
R449 R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Save R78 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Child of My Heart (Paperback): Alice McDermott Child of My Heart (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
R521 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R79 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Bigamist's Daughter (Paperback): Alice McDermott A Bigamist's Daughter (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
R521 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R79 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Why I Like This Story (Hardcover): Jackson R. Bryer Why I Like This Story (Hardcover)
Jackson R. Bryer; Contributions by A.R. Gurney, Alan Cheuse, Alice McDermott, Andre Dubus, …
R1,267 Discovery Miles 12 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

After This (Paperback): Alice McDermott After This (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
R480 R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Save R116 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Someone (Paperback): Alice McDermott Someone (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
R471 R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Save R118 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Charming Billy (Paperback): Alice McDermott Charming Billy (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
R472 R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Save R117 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Bigamist's Daughter (Paperback): Alice McDermott Bigamist's Daughter (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
R530 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R93 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Child of My Heart (Paperback): Alice McDermott Child of My Heart (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
R473 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R83 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Alguien (Spanish, Paperback): Alice McDermott Alguien (Spanish, Paperback)
Alice McDermott; Translated by Vanesa Casanova
R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
American Literature, Volume 1 with Access Code (Paperback, 2nd ed.): William E. Cain, Alice McDermott, Lance E Newman, Hilary... American Literature, Volume 1 with Access Code (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
William E. Cain, Alice McDermott, Lance E Newman, Hilary E. Wyss
R1,824 Discovery Miles 18 240 Out of stock
The Ninth Hour (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Alice McDermott The Ninth Hour (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Alice McDermott
R997 Discovery Miles 9 970 Out of stock
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