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 Kirkus Reviews gave it a starred review, summarizing that there's "no high drama here, but Marie and Gabe are compelling in their basic goodness." 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 gave Someone a starred review, calling it 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."
Awards Year Award Category Result Ref. 2013 National Book Award Fiction National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Fiction Maine Readers' Choice Award — Paterson Fiction Prize Fiction 2015 International Dublin Literary Award —
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