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On the cusp of fifteen, pretty Theresa is the town's most sought-after babysitter - cheerful, beloved, adored by children and animals, but also a solitary soul with an already complex understanding of human nature. She is Titania among her fairies, the one person to call on for help with a child in extreme distress. Theresa does not doubt her power over the fathers of her adoring charges either, like the elderly artist whose signature and doodles may fetch a fortune, but whose potential lechery Theresa toys with like a kitten with yarn. Yet, during this unforgettable summer, it is her cousin Daisy, a frail little creature with glittery shoes and worrying bruises that don't heal, in whom Theresa invests her greatest love. Infused with suppressed passion, disappointment, and enduring hope, Alice McDermott's wonderful new novel reveals a world seen afresh through the eyes of an utterly seductive fifteen-year-old. Once again, McDermott explores the mysterious depths of what seems like everyday life with unforgettable insight and emotional power.
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Fifteen is a year of clarity; you're still one of the kids, but you're finally beginning to unlock the mysteries of adult behavior. In her luminous novel Child of My Heart, Alice McDermott's narrator is a 15-year-old girl who has two qualities that give her access to the secret lives of adults: she's beautiful, and she looks after their children. Her beauty has already shaped her life. Her parents have moved the family to the east end of Long Island in hopes of finding her a wealthy husband, or at least a fancy crowd to run with. Here she babysits the children of the rich, whose fathers demonstrate their relative decency by making passes at her, or not. The novel spans a dreamy summer as our heroine spends her days with her various charges at the beach, happily leading her crew on home-grown, rather sweet adventures. Among the kids she looks after is a toddler whose father is a famous, aging artist. The narrator's preternatural acuity is apparent in this exchange with a new client: "Mrs. Richardson learned by direct inquiry that I lived in that sweet cottage with the dahlias (interested) and went to the academy (more interested) and babysat for this child of the famous artist (most interested) down the road." Child of My Heart is a pretty straightforward coming-of-age novel, but it's marked throughout by this beautifully honed, wry, knowing tone. McDermott's narrator reminds us that our lost innocence might not have been so innocent after all. --Claire Dederer
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The fault with this novel is not in its story.
Indeed, Alice McDermott writes beautiful prose--in the sense that they are flowery. But whether it is LUCID, too, in its descriptions, I am not quite certain. (Perhaps the test will be when she describes a negative, which she hardly ever does, and when she does it is never remarkable.)
Notwithstanding the merits of "Charming Billy", this fiction, while obviously attempting to depict a beautiful child, is precisely that--TOO beautiful, so as to be unbelievable. A fifteen year old sans dilemmas, negative traits, and internal conflicts? Uhm, ok.
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First, please see the gist of the story.
But the fault with this novel is not in its story.
Indeed, Alice McDermott writes beautiful prose--in the sense that they are flowery. But whether it is LUCID, too, in its descriptions, I am not quite certain. (Perhaps the test will be when she describes a negative, which she hardly ever does, and when she does it is never remarkable.)
Notwithstanding the merits of "Charming Billy", this fiction, while obviously attempting to depict a beautiful child, is precisely that--TOO beautiful, so as to be unbelievable. A fifteen year old sans dilemmas, negative traits, and internal conflicts? Uhm, ok.
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First, please see the reviews above for a gist of the story.
But the fault with this novel is not in its story.
Indeed, Alice McDermott writes beautiful prose--in the sense that they are flowery. But whether it is LUCID, too, in its descriptions, I am not quite certain. (Perhaps the test will be when she describes a negative, which she hardly ever does, and when she does it is never remarkable.)
Notwithstanding the merits of "Charming Billy", this fiction, while obviously attempting to depict a beautiful child, is precisely that--TOO beautiful, so as to be unbelievable. A fifteen year old sans dilemmas, negative traits, and internal conflicts? Uhm, ok.
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