TY  - BOOK
AU  - McDermott,Alice
TI  - Someone
SN  - 9781408847268 (pbk.) :
AV  - PS3563.C355 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Irish Americans
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - General
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Originally published: London: Bloomsbury Circus, 2013
N2  - 'Someone' begins on the stoop of a Brooklyn apartment building where Marie is waiting for her father to come home from work. It is the 1920s and in her Irish-American enclave the stories of her neighbours unfold before her short-sighted eyes. There is war-blinded Billy Corrigan and foolish, ill-fated Pegeen - and her parents' legendary Syrian-Irish marriage - the terrifying Big Lucy, and the ever-present Sisters of Charity from the convent down the road. As the years pass Marie's own history plays out against the backdrop of a changing world
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