A Bigamist's Daughter - McDermott, Alice
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Alice McDermott's brilliant first novel'One of our finest novelists at work today' LA TIMES'There's no one like Alice McDermott ... her touch is light as a feather, her perceptions purely accurate' ELLEElizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world - of real struggles, passion, pain and love - spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban…mehr

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Alice McDermott's brilliant first novel'One of our finest novelists at work today' LA TIMES'There's no one like Alice McDermott ... her touch is light as a feather, her perceptions purely accurate' ELLEElizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world - of real struggles, passion, pain and love - spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber - by a man's real touch and by a real story in search of an ending. This is a luminous novel of memory, revelation and desire.
Autorenporträt
Alice McDermott's novels include Someone, The Ninth Hour, After This, Child of My Heart, Charming Billy, At Weddings and Wakes, That Night and A Bigamist's Daughter. She won the National Book Award, has been Pulitzer Prize finalist three times and been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She lives with her family outside Washington DC.
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'Impressive ... McDermott writes with assurance and skill, and has created a fascinatingly prismatic story' Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review