Alice McDermott: Someone
Bookworm
KCRW
4.5 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Alice McDermott once felt a fear that her new novel would be seen as just another of her perfect Irish American novels. Instead it leaps from the page.
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:04.0 | Boots! |
| 0:06.0 | Where would we be without books? |
| 0:11.0 | Where would we be without good? |
| 0:15.0 | No, Timberd. |
| 0:16.0 | It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books? |
| 0:23.4 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:29.6 | Today, my guest is Alice McDermott. |
| 0:32.4 | Her most recent novel is called Someone. |
| 0:37.1 | It's published by Faris Strauss and Giroux. |
| 0:39.6 | And let me begin by saying that I love this book about as much as I can imagine loving |
| 0:47.6 | a novel. |
| 0:48.4 | It was really, for me, delicious, warm, sort of, pardon me, a salvation? |
| 0:59.0 | It provided a lot of bomb for very unhappy areas. |
| 1:09.0 | You know, in other words, the things that I've always turned to novels for |
| 1:15.6 | and rarely find solace first and a sense that solace is impossible. |
| 1:24.6 | Both, both at once. |
| 1:27.8 | Both at once. |
| 1:29.3 | Yes. |
| 1:30.1 | Because the young woman who narrates this book, Marie, at a certain point, well, she doesn't |
| 1:37.6 | want to work in Manhattan. |
| 1:40.2 | She lives in Brooklyn with her mother and her brother. |
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