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Alice McDermott

Finalist, National Book Awards 1987
Winner, National Book Awards 1998
Longlist, 2013 National Book Awards

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.
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That Night

cover of That Night by Alice McDermott

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Charming Billy

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ISBN 9780374120801 Picador Modern Classics / Farrar, Straus & Giroux

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Someone

Someone by Alice McDermott, book cover
ISBN 9780374281090 Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Alice McDermott

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.

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