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Someone: A Novel
First edition
AuthorAlice McDermott
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication dateSeptember 10, 2013
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages240
ISBN978-0-374-28109-0

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."

Awards

Year Award Category Result Ref.
2013 National Book Award Fiction Longlisted
National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction Shortlisted
2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Fiction Shortlisted
Maine Readers' Choice Award Longlisted
Paterson Fiction Prize Fiction Shortlisted
2015 International Dublin Literary Award Shortlisted

References

  1. "Someone". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  2. Maslin, Janet (October 7, 2013). "Survivor Among a Lifetime of Ghosts". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  3. Maslin, Janet (December 19, 2013). "Janet Maslin's 10 Favorite Books of 2013". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  4. "Someone". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  5. McNulty, Charles (September 13, 2013). "Alice McDermott's snapshots of a woman in 'Someone'". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on December 1, 2013. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  6. "National Book Awards 2013". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
  7. 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.


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