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A teenage girl, raised on the east end of Long Island among the country estates of the rich, reflects on her understanding of the complexities and contradictions of human nature during a seemingly idyllic summer spent with her eight-year-old cousin Daisy. By the author of the National Book Award-winning Charming Billy. 150,000 first printing.
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"It is such a rich, wise, tender book. I absolutely loved it and long for more by her." -- Esther Frued
'...a book which manages to be both elegy and celebration. Utterly beguiling’ -- Time Out
'Child of My Heart dazzles in the details’ -- USA Today
'McDermott's prose slips down like liquid, often carrying alcohol's lingering sting' -- Daily Mail
‘Enough to turn your heart into a red velvet pin cushion’ -- Elle
‘Her incantatory cadence carries the reader blissfully along like the lulling rhythm of an overnight train.’ -- Economist
‘McDermott is a genius of quiet observation...Child of My Heart extends her artistic triumphs, and we should rejoice’ -- Los Angeles Times
‘McDermott sees everything and misses nothing ...' -- Houston Chronicle
‘The underlying emotions of this evocative novel are as sharp as a clenched handful of pins ... Utterly beguiling’ -- Time Out
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'...a book which manages to be both elegy and celebration. Utterly beguiling’ -- Time Out
'Child of My Heart dazzles in the details’ -- USA Today
'McDermott's prose slips down like liquid, often carrying alcohol's lingering sting' -- Daily Mail
‘Enough to turn your heart into a red velvet pin cushion’ -- Elle
‘Her incantatory cadence carries the reader blissfully along like the lulling rhythm of an overnight train.’ -- Economist
‘McDermott is a genius of quiet observation...Child of My Heart extends her artistic triumphs, and we should rejoice’ -- Los Angeles Times
‘McDermott sees everything and misses nothing ...' -- Houston Chronicle
‘The underlying emotions of this evocative novel are as sharp as a clenched handful of pins ... Utterly beguiling’ -- Time Out
Alice McDermott's Charming Billy won the National Book Award in 1998. She is the author of three other novels: At Weddings and Wakes, a New York Times Bestseller, That Night; and A Bigamist's Daughter. She lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0374121230
- ISBN 13 9780374121235
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- Number of pages208
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