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Alice McDermott is the author of several previous novels, including After This; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; and At Weddings and Wakes, all published by FSG.
That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. McDermott lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.
That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. McDermott lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.
Awards: NBA (1998) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
A Bigamist's Daughter (1982)
That Night (1987)
At Weddings and Wakes (1992)
Charming Billy (1997)
Child of My Heart (2002)
After This (2006)
Someone (2013)
The Ninth Hour (2017)
Absolution (2023)
That Night (1987)
At Weddings and Wakes (1992)
Charming Billy (1997)
Child of My Heart (2002)
After This (2006)
Someone (2013)
The Ninth Hour (2017)
Absolution (2023)
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Alice McDermott recommends
Pearce Oysters (2024)
Joselyn Takacs
"Against the encroaching consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Pearce Oysters offers a precise, panoramic, and ultimately devastating vision of the oystermen, anarchists, day laborers, deadbeats and struggling families who populate Louisiana's Gulf Coast. This is fiction with a social conscience that is, more wonderful still, beautifully told: witty, vivid, consistently humane. Joselyn Takacs understands the economics of the domestic oyster industry as well as she knows the permutations of love, loyalty, and resentment that define family life-or any life. A fabulous debut: entertaining, absorbing, necessary and true."
Holding Pattern (2023)
Jenny Xie
"Jenny Xie writes sentences that absolutely sparkle on the page. Holding Pattern glimmers with wit, with intelligence, with affection and chagrin - infused with compassion, good humor, and hope."
The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman (2023)
Molly Lynch
"Molly Lynch's hypnotic debut, in its intensity and wry wisdom, evokes the early feminist novels of Margaret Atwood. Lynch is the kind of writer who can, with the turn of a phrase, set the ordinary thrumming with almost unbearable tension. She reminds us that in our current age, all of our placid hours, our every affection - most especially for our children - can be upended by dread. A writer to watch, and to celebrate."
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