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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsA Bigamist's Daughterby Alice McDermott
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 novels of memory, revelation, and desire.
Review:"This is nothing less than a brilliant first novel. Elizabeth Connelly is an editor at a vanity press who has seen everything and has few illusions about any of it. A young man then brings her an unfinished novel about a bigamist. The story is based on fact, and Elizabeth begins to wonder, at a given moment, whether her own father—whose mysterious, lengthy absences scarred her childhood—might have led a life like that of the bigamist in the young writer's novel. A love affair between writer and editor ensues; some mysteries are resolved, some remain. Splendid." Reviewed by Andrew Witmer, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)
Review:"A masterly and admirable first novel...A Bigamist's Daughter sparkles with crisp language and fine, precise storytelling...a richly detailed story." Kansas City Star
Review:"In the fiction of Alice McDermott, the heart is found in the quiet touch." The Boston Globe
Review:"A work of surpassing craftsmanship, high seriousness, and...great wisdom and humor. It's a wonderful read." John Yount
Review:"Always enjoyable and at times brilliant." The Hartford Courant
Review:"McDermott balances a poignant romanticism with sharp realism in her own crisp and careful writing style." Ms.
Review:"Splendid...this is nothing less than a brilliant first novel." Virginia Quarterly Review
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