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Alice McDermott (born June 27, 1953) is an American writer and university professor. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. She was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction. McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities.
Oct 30, 2023 · McDermott's latest novel, which centers on two American women who meet in Saigon in 1963, explores themes of religion, humility and insistent charitable...
Oct 27, 2023 · What happens when two American women attempt to help the people of Saigon? In Alice McDermott’s new novel, the answer is complicated.
Official website of National Book Award winning American author Alice McDermott. Books include The Ninth Hour, Someone, Charming Billy, After This, That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, Child of My Heart, The Bigamist's Daughter.
Dec 21, 2023 · NPR's Juana Summers speaks with author Alice McDermott about her new novel Absolution and its central question: what do you sacrifice in order to do something good for someone else?
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About. Alice McDermott’s eighth novel, The Ninth Hour, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in September 2017. Her seventh novel, Someone, 2013, was a New York Timesbestseller, a finalist for the Dublin IMPAC Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Patterson Prize for Fiction, and The Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Someone was ...
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Nov 7, 2023 · Alice McDermott has long chronicled the struggles of Irish Americans. Her ninth novel, 'Absolution,' recounts the Vietnam War from a new perspective.
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