Alice McDermott — Herself, of Course — at Conn Ave

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The great Alice McDermott returns with a sparkling, powerful new novel of one woman's life, told in three remarkable acts. It is 1980 in New York City, and a young woman is perched on a radiator cover in a spacious SoHo loft. A famous photographer snaps her portrait for a full page review of her debut novel. Blithely, he predicts her future: "Eventually, no one will really distinguish one book from another—that's when they'll start calling you 'beloved.'" Victoria Gannon—Vicky to her family, V. to her readers—is a middle class woman from Rochester, New York, blessed—and cursed—with an unrelenting ambition to write. Through love affairs and professional upheavals, bouts of happiness and loss, love and rage, we follow her from her early days in the grimy city, to a famil…

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