Someone / Alice McDermott.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781427213105
- Physical Description: 6 audio discs (approximately 10 hr., min.) : digital, CD audio ; 22 cm
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York, NY] : Macmillan Audio, [2013]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Compact discs. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kate Reading. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Families > Fiction. Irish Americans > Fiction. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. |
Available copies
- 6 of 6 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Carnegie PL of Steuben Co - Angola | ACD FIC MCDERMOTT (Text) | 33118000161637 | Adult: Audiobook | Available | - |
Coatesville-Clay Twp PL - Coatesville | AUD-CD MC (Text) | 78321000032672 | AV | Available | - |
Fulton Co PL - Rochester Main Library | BOCD FIC MCD (Text) | 33187003557945 | BOCD (Adult) | Available | - |
Jefferson Co PL - Madison Main Branch | AUDIO MCDE (Text) | 39391006508038 | Adult Audio Fiction | Available | - |
Jennings Co PL - North Vernon | BKCD FIC MCD (Text) | 30653003163482 | Adult BKCD | Available | - |
Mitchell Comm. PL - Mitchell | CD MCD (Text) | 36823001513293 | Audiobooks | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
Chronicles the ordinary life of a woman named Marie, from her childhood to old age, as she experiences the changing world of her Irish-American enclave in Brooklyn, in a novel that speaks of life as it is daily lived. - Baker & Taylor
The National Book Award-winning author chronicles the ordinary life of a woman named Marie, from her childhood to old age, as she experiences the changing world of her Irish-American enclave in Brooklyn, in this novel that speaks of life as it is daily lived. Simultaneous. - McMillan Palgrave
A fully realized portrait of one woman's 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 McDermott's 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 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 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.
A Publishers Weekly Best Fiction Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2013
A New York Times Notable Book of 2013
A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2013
An NPR Best Book of 2013
Includes a bonus interview with Alice McDermott and her editor Jonathan Galassi
Program features original music composed specifically for the novel:
Beginnings (W. Armstrong/traditional) ⢠You Don't Want to Go Into New York City (W. Armstrong) ⢠It Is All Solved by Walking (W. Armstrong)