Someone - alice mcdermott

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 McDermotts extraordinary New York Times bestselling 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 brothers brief stint as a Catholic priest and his emotional breakdown; her career as a funeral directors 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.