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DO NOT READ THIS BOOK if you have a work deadline or a colicky baby or need to complete your college thesis or doctoral dissertation. Definitely don't read it if you are an aspiring author because Alice McDermot will strip you bare and rip you to shreds. She will make you toss your whole manuscript in a dumpster or over the side of a bridge and when that's done you'll probably wind up tossing yourself over. I don't think she means it. She's an ignorant assassin but my God, she's like the Sundance Kid. So fast and furious. So talented it hurts. Her words shimmer and soar as you read them. Transcendent is so overused but it does apply to her. Her writing unparallelled. I honestly cannot think of one other modern day novelist who can match her or surpass her. I wept when I read her words. I wept freely like a child because she stripped me of my life and I knew nothing but the child she was in Someone. Little Marie with her fat glasses and stubborn Irish resolve. She is the youngest child of immigrants growing up Brooklyn and you will inhabit her until everything she sees and feels and hears is yours:

the light in the windows,
the conspiring children,
the powdered brides,
the first dizzying kiss,
the disruption of death,
the scent of soda bread,
the steam from the bath,
the hunger that is a bright life with brand new eyes behind cold thick glasses.

Everything will be yours. McDermott will give you Marie's life. Not in pieces or through a scrim or from a distance. You will literally stand in her world, your head spinning at the madness of it. How is possible to break into another century and run through streaming sunlight that doesn't exist? How is it possible to recognize another life? Another father? Another brother? Another boy with grey eyes in soda shop in Brooklyn when in truth you were never there...

I am horrified, mesmerized, spun like autumn leaves with the beauty of this novel.


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Someone A Novel Alice McDermott Books Reviews

I've just scrolled down thru many other reviews - and think that now
all I have to say is -"Me too, I loved it!" I have wanted to read something by
McDermott, just never did; and now I am happy to be a new member of
her fan club. I was stunned by how beautiful her writing could be - while
being so spare. I was amazed by how much I got to know about the
characters - while not reading reams of description. I was surprised by
how I was easily able to follow the plot turns - without her having to give
us every last detail. This is a wonderful story told by a woman at the
end of her life - and it's had a big impact on me as I hit my "later years". . .
there's so much feeling and so much life in her memories. McDermott
is helping me see how memories become a bigger part of our lives
as we age. Fabulous book.
Readers of today have little patience, it seems, from the reviews. This book is a beautifully written work, not a page-turner, a pot-boiler, a heart-throbber, or whatever impatient, unfocused readers might want. If all you want is a fast-moving story, read Dan Brown. McDermott writes detailed, thoughtful books that cover all the senses, including the heart. This is a book to read slowly, savoring the sentence structure, the words, the feelings. Take time to read this lovely book.
McDermott once again captures a neighborhood, a time. Surprise, right? Marie is a little girl who notices everything. Her poor eyesight preserves the sounds, the scents, the taste of her time. Her innocence, her fumbling, her learning the customs and culture of Her Irish family, friends, and neighbors lets us live in 1930s and 40s Brooklyn. I'm so glad we we're able to help her grow old , watch her grow up with her parents and her brother, Gabe. Then to see her with her loving husband, her own grown children and the stories she was able to tell them--what a treat. I've read Someone twice on but I feel I need to buy the book too. Her neighborhood wasn't exactly like mine, but pretty close. She takes me back to my old world better than I can remember it in my own mind. My own growing up place no longer exists so I can't go back there but surely if I could it would be the church, the funeral parlor, the street play I'd be looking for. Thank you , Alice, for letting an old lady remember in such a tactile way.
DO NOT READ THIS BOOK if you have a work deadline or a colicky baby or need to complete your college thesis or doctoral dissertation. Definitely don't read it if you are an aspiring author because Alice McDermot will strip you bare and rip you to shreds. She will make you toss your whole manuscript in a dumpster or over the side of a bridge and when that's done you'll probably wind up tossing yourself over. I don't think she means it. She's an ignorant assassin but my God, she's like the Sundance Kid. So fast and furious. So talented it hurts. Her words shimmer and soar as you read them. Transcendent is so overused but it does apply to her. Her writing unparallelled. I honestly cannot think of one other modern day novelist who can match her or surpass her. I wept when I read her words. I wept freely like a child because she stripped me of my life and I knew nothing but the child she was in Someone. Little Marie with her fat glasses and stubborn Irish resolve. She is the youngest child of immigrants growing up Brooklyn and you will inhabit her until everything she sees and feels and hears is yours

the light in the windows,
the conspiring children,
the powdered brides,
the first dizzying kiss,
the disruption of death,
the scent of soda bread,
the steam from the bath,
the hunger that is a bright life with brand new eyes behind cold thick glasses.

Everything will be yours. McDermott will give you Marie's life. Not in pieces or through a scrim or from a distance. You will literally stand in her world, your head spinning at the madness of it. How is possible to break into another century and run through streaming sunlight that doesn't exist? How is it possible to recognize another life? Another father? Another brother? Another boy with grey eyes in soda shop in Brooklyn when in truth you were never there...

I am horrified, mesmerized, spun like autumn leaves with the beauty of this novel.