Someone

Resumen del libro

An ordinary life--its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion--lived by an ordinary, but unforgettable woman: this is the subject of "Someone," Alice McDermott's extraordinary seventh novel.
We first glimpse Marie Commeford as a child: a girl in thick glasses observing her pre-Depression world from a Brooklyn stoop. Through her first heartbreak and eventual marriage; her delicate brother's brief stint as a Catholic priest and his emotional breakdown; her career as a funeral director's "consoling angel"; the deaths of her parents and the births of her children--we follow Marie through the changing world of the twentieth century and her Irish-American enclave. Rendered with remarkable empathy and insight, "Someone" is a novel that speaks of life as it is daily lived, with passion and heartbreak, a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;b Alice McDermottx{0026}lt;/b (Brooklyn, Nueva York, 1953) es una de las autoras literarias más prestigiosas de su país. Ha publicado las novelas x{0026}lt;i A Bigamistx{0026} x02019;s Daughterx{0026}lt;/i (1982), x{0026}lt;i Aquella nochex{0026}lt;/i (1987, finalista del National Book Award y del premio Pulitzer), x{0026}lt;i En bodas y entierrosx{0026}lt;/i (1992, finalista del premio Pulitzer), x{0026}lt;i Un hombre con encantox{0026}lt;/i (1998, ganadora del National Book Award), x{0026}lt;i Child of My Heartx{0026}lt;/i (2002), x{0026}lt;i After Thisx{0026}lt;/i (2006, finalista del premio Pulitzer), x{0026}lt;i Alguienx{0026}lt;/i (2013; Libros del Asteroide, 2015), x{0026}lt;i La novena horax{0026}lt;/i (2017; Libros del Asteroide, 2018) y x{0026}lt;i Absoluciónx{0026}lt;/i (2023; Libros del Asteroide, 2024).x{0026}lt;/p