Deirdre McNamer

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Deirdre McNamer is an American novelist. McNamer teaches in the Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) program at the University of Montana, Missoula,^[1] and chaired the fiction panel that judged the 2011 National Book Awards.^[2]

Published works

McNamer has written several novels, including

Rima in the Weeds (1991)
One Sweet Quarrel (1994)
My Russian (1999)
Red Rover (2007)

Critic Sven Birkerts: “Red Rover” is suggestively compressed in its way of paying out revelations, which steadily gather mass and shadows. Indeed, the means of presentation, the structural logic of the novel, are as much a part of its meaning as its thematic suggestions. McNamer’s way of combining her far-flung episodes effectively triangulates the unknowable event at the heart of the novel; we work out much of the drama through a kind of echolocation." The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Artforum all named Red Rover to their "Best Book" of 2007 lists. McNamer's stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Doubletake, and The New York Times Book Review.^[2]

References

↑ University of Montana Faculty Bio. Retrieved September 30, 2012
↑ 2.0 2.1 2011 National Book Awards Judges Bios National Book Foundation. Retrieved January 16, 2012.

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