Alice McDermottová se zaměřuje na hluboké psychologické portréty a zkoumá životy žen v různých společenských vrstvách. Její prozaický styl je známý svou lyrickou kvalitou a pronikavým postřehem pro nuance mezilidských vztahů. McDermottová se často zabývá tématy paměti, ztráty a hledání identity v proměnlivém světě. Její díla vyvolávají zamyšlení nad složitostí lidské zkušenosti a nad tím, jak minulost formuje naši přítomnost.
The collection features insightful essays, lectures, and observations from acclaimed author Alice McDermott, celebrated for her mastery of language and imagery. Through her reflections on the craft of writing fiction, McDermott shares her unique perspective on storytelling, exploring the nuances of character development and narrative structure. This work offers both aspiring writers and literature enthusiasts a deeper understanding of the artistry involved in creating compelling fiction.
* THE TOP 10 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'One of the finest contemporary novels I've read ... A moral masterpiece' ANN PATCHETT 'Her writing has a luminous kind of clarity, a grace and scope that fills me with wonder' RACHEL JOYCE 'Damning and dazzling ... The story of a Vietnam we never got in history class' OPRAH DAILY ----------------- You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. The two women form a wary alliance as they struggle to balance the pressure to be respectable wives for their ambitious husbands, with their own dubious impulses to "do good" for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later, Charlene's daughter, spurred by an encounter with an aging Vietnam veteran, reaches out to Tricia. Together, they look back at their time in Saigon, discovering how their lives as women on the periphery -- of politics, of history, of war, of their husbands' convictions -- have been shaped and burdened by the unintended consequences of America's tragic interference in Southeast Asia. Exploring the disaster of the Vietnam War through the lives built by American wives in 1960s Saigon, this is a virtuosic novel about folly and grace, obligation, sacrifice and the quest for absolution in a broken world.
"In That Night, New York Times bestselling author Alice McDermott "has taken a suburban teenage romance and pregnancy and infused it with the power, the ominousness, and the star-crossed romanticism of a contemporary Romeo and Juliet" (Chicago Tribune)"--
"Es will mir heute scheinen, daß jene von uns, die damals dort wohnten, in dem vagen und beharrlichen Bewußtsein eines möglichen, wenn nicht gar drohenden Verhängnisses lebten." Sheryl, das Mädchen aus der Vorstadt, und Rick, der junge Halbstarke, träumen den Traum ihrer ersten großen Liebe - zärtlich, zügellos und unbekümmert. Doch dann wird Sheryl schwanger, und ein Sturm der Entrüstung bricht in dem verschlafenen Nest aus. Rick und Sheryl müssen um ihre Liebe kämpfen; verzweifelt und zornig versuchen sie, der Doppelmoral einer biederen Spießerwelt zu trotzen.
The National Book Award-winning author chronicles the ordinary life of a woman named Marie, from her childhood to old age, as she experiences the changing world of her Irish-American enclave in Brooklyn, in this novel that speaks of life as it is daily lived.
"Pulitzer Prize finalist At Weddings and Wakes is "a brilliant, highly complex, extraordinary piece of fiction" (Chicago Tribune)"-- Provided by publisher
Eine aus dem Blickwinkel dreier Kinder erzählte bitterzarte Familiengeschichte aus Long Island, in deren Mittelpunkt die Romanze ihrer Lieblingstante May, einer ehemaligen Nonne, mit dem Briefträger Fred steht
Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered to comfort his widow, and to pay their respects to one of the last great romantics. As they trade tales of his famous humor, immense charm, and consuming sorrow, a complex portrait emerges of an enigmatic man, a loyal friend, a beloved husband, an incurable alcoholic. Alice McDermott's striking novel, Charming Billy, is a study of the lies that bind and the weight of familial love, of the way good intentions can be as destructive as the truth they were meant to hide. Charming Billy is the winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction.
The New York Times Bestselling Author of After This and Charming Billy Elizabeth Connelly, editor at a New York vanity press, sells the dream of publication (admittedly, to writers of questionable talent). Stories of true emotional depth rarely cross her desk. But when a young writer named Tupper Daniels walks in, bearing an unfinished novel, Elizabeth is drawn to both the novelist and his story-a lyrical tale about a man in love with more than one woman at once. Tupper's manuscript unlocks memories of her own secretive father, who himself may have been a bigamist. As Elizabeth and Tupper search for the perfect dénouement, their affair, too, approaches a most unexpected and poignant coda. A brilliant debut from one of our most celebrated authors, A Bigamist's Daughter is "a wise, sad, witty novel about men and women, God, hope, love, illusion, and fiction itself" (Newsweek).
