Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Szewczyk, Elaine

Titel

Alice McDermott, Artful Author

Ist Teil von

• Publishers Weekly, 2023-09, Vol.270 (36), p.14

Ort / Verlag

New York: PWxyz, LLC

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• “If I get 200 pages in and I’m not happy I can always say, you know, the other book you’re working on is much better, go back and work on that. McDermott’s gorgeous new novel Absolution (FSG, Nov.) is set in Saigon in 1963, a departure from her usual settings in New York City’s outer boroughs, and follows two American women—newlywed Tricia, whose husband works for Navy intelligence, and Charlene, the wife of a well-heeled corporate executive—as they navigate life during the Vietnam War era while acting as “helpmeets” to their often-absent spouses. After graduating from an all-girls Catholic high school, McDermott attended the State University of New York at Oswego, which she selected because it was “a top-three party school,” and where an instructor told her that she was a born writer.