{"product_id":"someone-9781408847268","title":"Someone","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe quietest life can resonate the longest. A beautiful, bittersweet masterpiece about a remarkable journey of the heart\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSomeone\u003c\/i\u003e begins on the stoop of a Brooklyn apartment building where Marie is waiting for her father to come home from work. It is the 1920s and in her Irish-American enclave the stories of her neighbours unfold before her short-sighted eyes.As the years pass Marie's own history plays out against the backdrop of a changing world. This is the story of one life in all its devastating pains and unexpected joys; its bursts of brilliant clarity and moments of profound confusion.Fragments of a curious childhood, of adolescent sexual awakenings, of motherhood and, finally, old age are pieced together in this resonant tale of an unremarkable, unforgettable woman.\u003cb\u003e______________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A beautiful book'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA beautiful book * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eMasterful * \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eExquisite … \u003ci\u003eSomeone\u003c\/i\u003e 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 * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eIt is easy to fall in love with Alice McDermott’s prose. Her endearing details and graceful sentences value the ordinary confusions of day-to-day lives * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e[McDermott]’s wisdom, gently hewn out of the stuff of every day, shines through this memorably atmospheric story’ * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eA shattering, century-spanning history of one apparently ordinary life … Told with characteristic care, force and economy * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eAlice McDermott, one of the greatest chroniclers of Irish-American life … I was smitten by \u003ci\u003eCharming Billy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSomeone\u003c\/i\u003e and, to a lesser extent, \u003ci\u003eChild of my Heart\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195275047255,"sku":"9781408847268","price":11.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/someone-9781408847268","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}