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...Alice McDermott is one of those writers who take seriously the injunction to write about what you know. The intricately beset realm of Irish Americans in New York City and on Long Island is the world she grew up in. It's that same world she has offered us, newly lighted, examined and even transfigured, in five earlier novels, including Charming Billy, a National Book Award winner...
...their four children, a family saga that spans three decades, from the end of World War II to the 1970s. Vietnam makes its lethal appearance, and abortion becomes an option that even Catholic girls exercise, but don't come to this book looking for the Beatles or J.F.K. McDermott's preoccupations go much deeper than baby-boom artifacts, deeper even than mere history. What is it, she wonders, that holds together the loose fabric of our lives...
...Though all these factors would have helped the pair stay calm while trapped, they may have little bearing on whether the men experience psychological ill effects in the future. "It wasn't in their interests to lose it [while they were underground]," says University of Queensland psychiatrist Brett McDermott, "but a lot of people, once they're in a safe place, experience a more intense emotional response." The danger for Webb and Russell is post-traumatic stress disorder, whose many and varied symptoms can take up to a decade to emerge. Relative levels of stoicism aren't pointers...
...yard touchdown run capped an eight-play, 52-yard drive with 11:43 left to play for the final score. The Quakers, who gained only 33 yards on the ground against the league’s top defense, scored with 4:07 left in the first period when Patrick McDermott hit Matt Carre from 17 yards...
...work is structured in a unique, specific style. Immersed in a story that she knows little about, Hong’s situation is akin to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or “Charming Billy” by Alice McDermott. Chang also says she was influenced by Henry James’s “Portrait of a Lady.” The most fascinating aspect of the novel is the interplay between the two sisters. In the novel Ling tells Junan that she and Yinan are like...