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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
September 10, 2013

ISBN
  
978-0-374-28109-0

Author
  
Alice McDermott

Genre
  
Fiction

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
240

Originally published
  
10 September 2013

Page count
  
240

Publisher
  
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Media type
  
Print (hardback & paperback)

Nominations
  
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

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Someone: A Novel, is the seventh book of fiction by American author Alice McDermott. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2013, it was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Critical Reception

  • Writing in the New York Times, Janet Maslin praised the novel, stating “Someone” is a wonderfully modest title for such a fine-tuned, beautiful book filled with so much universal experience, such haunting imagery, such urgent matters of life and death.” Maslin later named Someone to her best of 2013 books list.
  • Publishers Weekly called the book a “… deceptively simple tour de force.”
  • The Los Angeles Times claimed, “Just as McDermott manages to write lyrically in plain language, she is able to find the drama in uninflected experience.”

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