Someone (McDermott Novel)
''Someone: A Novel'' is the seventh book of fiction by American author Alice McDermott. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2013, it was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Critical reception *''Kirkus Reviews'' gave it a starred review, summarizing that there's "no high drama here, but Marie and Gabe are compelling in their basic goodness." *Writing in ''The New York Times'', Janet Maslin praised the novel, stating ''Someone'' is a "wonderfully modest title for such a fine-tuned, beautiful book filled with so much universal experience, such haunting imagery, such urgent matters of life and death." Maslin later named ''Someone'' to her best of 2013 books list. *''Publishers Weekly'' gave ''Someone'' a starred review, calling it a "deceptively simple tour de force." *The ''Los Angeles Times'' claimed, "Just as McDermott manages to write lyrically in plain language, she is able to find the drama in uninflected experience." A ...
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