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10/10/2015. BOOK REVIEW—SOMEONE BY ALICE McDERMOTT

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Author of When Enemies Offend Thee and  Surface and Shadow, plus short stories appearing in journals and anthologies, including Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest 2017.

10 OCTOBER 2015 10/10/2015. BOOK REVIEW—SOMEONE BY ALICE McDERMOTT

10/10/2015. BOOK REVIEW—SOMEONE BY ALICE McDERMOTT

SomeoneAlice McDermott has written several highly acclaimed novels, including one that won the National Book Award and three others that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She also teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, which is only about 20 miles up the road from where I live. Despite her obvious writing skill and her physical proximity, I had never read one of her novels until now. To introduce myself to her work, I chose her most recent novel, Someone, and I don’t regret my choice. Someone took me into the mind of a sensitive, yet strong, woman named Marie Commeford, who searches throughout her life to understand the line between joy and sorrow, a deep but narrow crevasse that seems to open and close at will.

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