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Alice McDermott


(b.1953)

Alice McDermott is the author of several previous novels, including After This; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; and At Weddings and Wakes, all published by FSG.
That Night
, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. McDermott lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.
 

Awards: NBA (1998)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   A Bigamist's Daughter (1982)
   That Night (1987)
   At Weddings and Wakes (1992)
   Charming Billy (1997)
   Child of My Heart (2002)
   After This (2006)
   Someone (2013)
   The Ninth Hour (2017)
   Absolution (2023)
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Books containing stories by Alice McDermott
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The Best American Short Stories 2022 (2022)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Andrew Sean Greer
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Why I Like This Story (2019)
edited by
Jackson R Bryer
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Mondo Barbie (1993)
(Mondo)
edited by
Lucinda Ebersole and Richard Peabody

Awards
1998 National Book Award for Fiction : Charming Billy

Award nominations
2024 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee) : Absolution
2017 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : The Ninth Hour
2017 Kirkus Prize for Fiction (finalist) : The Ninth Hour
2015 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Someone
2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : Someone
2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (nominee) : After This
2000 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Charming Billy
1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (nominee) : At Weddings and Wakes
1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (nominee) : That Night
1988 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee) : That Night
1987 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : That Night
1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : That Night


Alice McDermott recommends
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Pearce Oysters (2024)
Joselyn Takacs
"Against the encroaching consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Pearce Oysters offers a precise, panoramic, and ultimately devastating vision of the oystermen, anarchists, day laborers, deadbeats and struggling families who populate Louisiana's Gulf Coast. This is fiction with a social conscience that is, more wonderful still, beautifully told: witty, vivid, consistently humane. Joselyn Takacs understands the economics of the domestic oyster industry as well as she knows the permutations of love, loyalty, and resentment that define family life-or any life. A fabulous debut: entertaining, absorbing, necessary and true."
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Holding Pattern (2023)
Jenny Xie
"Jenny Xie writes sentences that absolutely sparkle on the page. Holding Pattern glimmers with wit, with intelligence, with affection and chagrin - infused with compassion, good humor, and hope."
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The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman (2023)
Molly Lynch
"Molly Lynch's hypnotic debut, in its intensity and wry wisdom, evokes the early feminist novels of Margaret Atwood. Lynch is the kind of writer who can, with the turn of a phrase, set the ordinary thrumming with almost unbearable tension. She reminds us that in our current age, all of our placid hours, our every affection - most especially for our children - can be upended by dread. A writer to watch, and to celebrate."

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