That Night, Alice McDermott

Автор: Alice McDermott
Название: What About the Baby?
ISBN: 1250849225 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250849229
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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A collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched "virtuoso of language and image" (Rebecca Steinitz, The Boston Globe)

What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction gathers the bestselling novelist Alice McDermott's pithiest wisdom about her chosen art, acquired over a lifetime as an acclaimed writer and teacher of writing.

From technical advice ("check that your verbs aren't burdened by unnecessary hads and woulds") to setting the bar ("I expect the fiction I read to carry with it the conviction that it is written with no other incentive than that it must be written"), from the demands of readers ("they'd been given a story with a baby in it, and they damn well wanted that baby accounted for") to the foibles of public life ("I've never subscribed to the notion that a film adaptation is the final imprimatur for a work of fiction, despite how often I've been told by encouraging friends and strangers, 'Maybe they'll make a movie of your novel,' as if I'd been aiming for a screenplay all along but somehow missed the mark and wrote a novel by mistake"), McDermott muses trenchantly and delightfully about the craft of fiction.

She also serves throughout as the artful conductor of a literary chorus, quoting generously from the work of other great writers (including Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Nabokov, Morrison, and Woolf ), beautifully joining her voice with theirs. These stories of lessons learned and books read, and of the terrors and the joys of what she calls "this mad pursuit," form a rich and valuable sourcebook for readers and writers alike: a deeply charming meditation on the unique gift that is literature.

Автор: Alice McDermott
Название: Charming Billy
ISBN: 0747545391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747545392
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Цена: 14840.00 T
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Описание: Billy fell in love with a beautiful Irish girl working for a wealthy Park Avenue family. Billy wanted to marry Eva, but then she went back to Ireland. Eva died of pneumonia. Billy never got over it. Billy began courting Maeve not long after, but for the rest of their lives, he, she and Dennis shared a hidden, twisted grief.

Автор: Alice McDermott
Название: Child of My Heart
ISBN: 0312422911 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312422912
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Цена: 11030.00 T
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In Alice McDermott's first work of fiction since her best-selling, National Book Award-winning Charming Billy, a woman recalls her fifteenth summer with the wry and bittersweet wisdom of hindsight.

The beautiful child of older parents, raised on the eastern end of Long Island, Theresa is her town's most sought-after babysitter--cheerful, poised, an effortless storyteller, a wonder with children and animals. Among her charges this fateful summer is Daisy, her younger cousin, who has come to spend a few quiet weeks in this bucolic place. While Theresa copes with the challenge presented by the neighborhood's waiflike children, the tumultuous households of her employers, the attentions of an aging painter, and Daisy's fragility of body and spirit, her precocious, tongue-in-check sense of order is tested as she makes the perilous crossing into adulthood. In her deeply etched rendering of all that happened that seemingly idyllic season, McDermott once again peers into the depths of everyday life with inimitable insight and grace.

Автор: Alice McDermott; Read by Sheryl Bernstein
Название: Child of My Heart UAB CD
ISBN: 1559277688 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781559277686
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Автор: Alice McDermott; Read by Sheryl Bernstein
Название: Child of My Heart UAB CAS
ISBN: 155927767X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781559277679
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Цена: 20200.00 T
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Автор: Alice McDermott; Read by Martha Plimpton
Название: After This
ISBN: 0792743555 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792743552
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Автор: Alice McDermott; read by Martha Plimpton
Название: After This UAB CD
ISBN: 1593979673 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781593979676
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Автор: Alice McDermott; Read by Martha Plimpton
Название: After This
ISBN: 079274537X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792745372
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Автор: Alice McDermott; read by Barrie Kreinik
Название: Charming Billy
ISBN: 1250310911 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250310910
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Цена: 24510.00 T
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Автор: Alice McDermott; read by Angela Dawe
Название: What About the Baby? MOD
ISBN: 1250804604 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250804600
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Автор: Alice McDermott
Название: After This
ISBN: 1250211190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250211194
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Цена: 12250.00 T
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Автор: McDermott Alice
Название: What about the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction
ISBN: 0374130620 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374130626
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 16550.00 T
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A collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched virtuoso of language and image (Rebecca Steinitz, The Boston Globe)

Look: Artistic inspiration, religious faith, does not come to most of us with the beating of wings or the leaping of flames or the cinematic, middle-of-the-night aha moment that cuts to an acceptance speech in Stockholm. It comes through long effort, through moving ahead and falling back, through working in the dark. It comes to us in moments of passionate intuition and over long days and nights of painful silence. It arrives in the usual and yet miraculous confluence of ordinary events. It comes and goes. It leaves us in doubt. It is sustained by doubt. It is the work of a lifetime.

What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction gathers Alice McDermott's essays and lectures regarding her own "work of a lifetime" as a bestselling novelist and professor of writing. From technical advice ("check that your verbs aren't burdened by unnecessary hads and woulds") to setting the bar ("I expect the fiction I read to carry with it the conviction that it is written with no other incentive than it must be written"), from the demands of readers ("they'd been given a story with a baby in it and they damn well wanted that baby accounted for"), to the foibles of public life ("I've never subscribed to the notion that a movie adaptation is the final imprimatur for a work of fiction--despite how often I've been told by encouraging friends and strangers: Maybe they'll make a movie of your novel . . . as if I'd been aiming for a screenplay all along but somehow missed the mark and wrote a novel by mistake"), McDermott muses delightfully about the art and the craft of literary creation.

She also serves throughout as the wise and witty conductor of a literary chorus, quoting generously from the work of various greats (Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Nabokov, Morrison, Woolf, and more), beautifully joining her own voice with theirs. These stories of lessons learned, books read, the terrors and the joys of what she calls "this mad pursuit," form a rich and truly useful collection for readers and writers alike: a deeply charming meditation on the gift that is literature.