Autor: Alice McDermott

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A novel that speaks of life as it is daily lived; a crowning achievement by one of the finest American writers An ordinary life-its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments …

”A beautiful novel” Sunday Times ”CHILD OF MY HEART is a remarkably poised and provocative work … uplifting, enchanting … the story is so authentic” Observer ”Mc Dermott”s elegant, understa …

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD’A masterpiece’ Time Out A moving novel about love and grief by the New York Times bestselling author The late Billy Lynch’s family and friends gather at a small bar …

’The triumph of After This is its evocation of childhood … Mc Dermott’s unshowy, succinct sentences summon up the flavour of the past when it was new’ THE TIMES’Sublime … Mc Dermott’s simple pros …

Alice Mc Dermott’s brilliant first novel’One of our finest novelists at work today’ LA TIMES’There’s no one like Alice Mc Dermott … her touch is light as a feather, her perceptions purely accurate’ …

A remarkable novel of family life from the National Book Award-winning bestselling author Twice a week, Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia with her three children in tow, returning to the Brooklyn home wher …

’A stunning work’ Sunday Times’That Night has universal appeal … there is a depth of feeling here which is beautifully – and seriously – realised’ Independent______________________The evocative sec …

WINNER OF TEH PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZEONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2017From the National Book Award-winning author comes a luminous, deeply humane nov …

The quietest life can resonate the longest. A beautiful, bittersweet masterpiece about a remarkable journey of the heart SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED …

A selection of stories from Sweden’s greatest post-war writer. “Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion. …

On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that 'Nobody can read like a writer, ’ Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eig …

Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read – or re-read – the stories sel …

* 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 …

* 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 …