A Bigamist's Daughter (Paperback)
Description
Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor’s, but isn’t quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world—of real struggles, passion, pain, and love—spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber—by a man’s real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all—in Alice McDermott’s luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.
About the Author
Alice McDermott is the author of five previous novels, including A Bigamist’s Daughter; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy; winner of the 1998 National Book Award; At Weddings and Wakes; and That Night. She lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.
Praise for A Bigamist's Daughter…
“Impressive...McDermott writes with assurance and skill, and has created a fascinatingly prismatic story.”—Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review
“McDermott is an enormously skilled and assured writer who transforms the ordinary into something resonant and magical.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Alice McDermott’s novels are like family albums, each scene hazy with the yellow light of history, nostalgic as faded Polaroids.”—San Francisco Examiner
“Splendid...this is nothing less than a brilliant first novel.”—Virginia Quarterly Review