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,^[1] it was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.^[2]^[3]

Critical reception[edit]

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.”^[4] Maslin later named Someone to her best of 2013 books list.^[5]
Publishers Weekly called the book a “… deceptively simple tour de force.”^[6]
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.”^[7]

^ "Someone, book review". kirkusreviews.com. Kirkus. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
^ "2013 National Book Award Longlist, Fiction". nationalbook.org. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
^ Florez, Paul. "NBCC Fiction Finalist Alice McDermott in Conversation with Paul Florez". www.bookcritics.org. National Book Critics Circle. Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
^ Maslin, Janet (October 7, 2013). "Survivor Among a Lifetime of Ghosts". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
^ Maslin, Janet (December 19, 2013). "Janet Maslin's 10 Favorite Books of 2013". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
^ "Someone, book review". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
^ McNulty, Charles (September 13, 2013). "Alice McDermott's snapshots of a woman in 'Someone'". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 10 December 2014.

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