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Award-winning novelist Alice McDermott deals with many aspects of love and family life in her novels. She infuses her works with inventiveness and originality, and is praised for her storytelling skills, her lyrical writing, and her descriptive detail and imagery. Her penultimate novel Charming Billy won the National Book Award in 1998. Her latest book, Child of My Heart, is a subtle story of teenage sexuality laced with sly literary allusions and provocative insights into the enigma of sexual desire.