Ms. Deirdre McNamer

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  Deirdre McNamer Photo by Mark Bryant
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  Deirdre McNamer can proclaim to be one of those. On Sunday, April 19, at 7 p.m., at the Glacier County Public Library, you will have the chance to meet her and hear what it is like to be a published author and how it feels to have had four books published.
  
  Returning to Cut Bank to talk about her life as an author, feels a lot like coming home for McNamer. She was born in Cut Bank and for a few years her family found homes not only in Cut Bank, but Shelby and Conrad, too. They eventually returned to Cut Bank in 1960 and McNamer graduated from Cut Bank High School in 1968. But the family's roots go back even a further than that.
  
  "My grandparents homesteaded near Shelby in 1909 and I had a great uncle who actually worked at the Cut Bank Pioneer Press for a time," McNamer said.
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  McNamer said this book takes place in a "made-up town, which resembles a place like Conrad," she said. It's a story of a friendship between a young girl who lives in the town and a young woman who returns to the town after having lived abroad for a time.
  
  Her second book, One Sweet Coral is a historical novel set in Cut Bank and Shelby during the homesteading years. "It starts around 1909 and runs through the late 1920s and revolves around the world heavyweight fight Shelby was host to between Dempsey and Gibbons," shared McNamer.
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  My Russian is McNamer's third book and is set in a town like Missoula, where McNamer earned her bachelor's and master's degrees and now works as an English professor at the University of Montana. "This book is a mystery and is about a woman who returns to her hometown, incognito to find out certain things about her life," she said.
  
  The fourth book and the book that McNamer will be spending time talking about while at the Glacier County Public Library on Sunday, is Red Rover. "This is a story about two brothers, that is loosely based on my father and his brother," she said.
  
  McNamer said the book started out as non-fiction, but decided to turn it into fiction. "In the end it is not a literal truth and is more of a made-up scenario of what might have happened," she shared.
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  McNamer has some thoughts on an upcoming fifth novel she hopes to write in the future. "I might try to set this one, at least partially, in the Portland area, another place that is familiar to me," she said. "I don't have the sustained time a novel takes right now, but maybe once school gets out."
  
  If you've given any thought to becoming a published author, then listening and learning from one who has "been there, done that," would be a great start. McNamer's presentation will touch on that and give you insight to her award-winning novel, Red Rover.
  
  "I am excited to be in Cut Bank and do this," McNamer said.
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  The title of Dee McNamer's second book, centered on the Dempsey-Gibbons title fight, is actually "One Sweet Quarrel.

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  Join in a discussion of "Red Rover," the newest release from local author and UM professor Deirdre McNamer at Missoula Public Library's book groups on Tuesday, March 10 at 7 p.m, or Thursday, March 12 at 1 p.m. Copies of the book are available at the library check-out desk. McNamer will join us to read from her work in our Winter Reading Celebration on Wednesday, March 25, at 7 p.m.

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  Published on: 9/17/2007    Last Visited: 9/17/2007  

  Red Rover by Deidre McNamer
  
  Book DigestMcNamer (who also wrote Rima in the Weeds) is a wonderful writer living in Montana, which no doubt accounts for her less-than-household-name status,that and her not having published in seven years.
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  McNamer tells the tale episodically, as a group of short stories with crisp, accurate prose.

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  Deirdre McNamer: Red Rover
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  Deidre McNamer
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  McNamer found the photo in a family album and hung it on the wall where she worked on the novel to keep her focused. "There was something about the movement and sheer happiness of it that I really wanted to keep before my mind," she says."The sadness of this story is in the falling away from the great freedom and blitheness of youth." Red Rover unfolds as an engaging exploration of life's great disappointments and the emotional intelligence gained with age. Through its characters, McNamer addresses, among other harsh realities, the hypocrisy of war, a reality particularly relevant today, she says. "With any war, you can decide whether to go or not and what it means if you do.I'd be the last person to say people shouldn't follow their idea of bravery and patriotism," McNamer says."But any war also has an element of people making money off it, and of innocent lives being squandered." She considers the war in Iraq particularly problematic. "It grieves me on a number of fronts, and my feelings about the war did infuse some of what I was thinking in writing this book." Red Rover is about making sense of a single tragic event, and of life's tragedies in general. But its lesson is that we can neither make sense of tragedy nor justify it.Instead, McNamer hopes she's shown there's "something interesting and valiant in the way people keep trying to wrangle with the meaning of it and its consequences."

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  No. But on a lighter note, we're reminded of a grandmother of our friend, the novelist Dee McNamer, who, when informed that the Soviets could launch a nuclear missile accurate enough to hit First Avenue North in Great Falls, Montana, sighed with relief because she lived on First Avenue South.

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  An Interview with Deirdre McNamer
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  Missoula-based writer Deirdre McNamer's fascinating new novel Red Rover tells the story of the unexplained death of a Montana man shortly after he returned from serving in South America with the FBI during World War II, and the ongoing lives of the family, friends, and acquaintances that survived him.McNamer will discuss the book tonight at The King's English in Salt Lake City (August 20, 7 p.m.), and at the Tattered Cover in Denver on Tuesday, August 21 (7:30 p.m.).I recently interviewed Deirdre McNamer via email about the true events that inspired the novel, the structure of the book, the subtlety of her writing, and her experience as a member of a family of writers.
  
  NewWest: I read that Red Rover is based on events in your own family that you were initially researching for a nonfiction book.Which aspects of Red Rover are based on facts you uncovered in your research?
  
  Deirdre McNamer: The answer to that question is dealt with at some length in the Penguin author interview online.In brief, I had an uncle who joined the FBI and was sent during WWII on an undercover assignment to Argentina.A year after the war he was found dead of a shotgun wound in his Missoula apartment.The coroner told the newspaper it was suicide, but she filed a death certificate that listed the death as an accident and gave a different location for the shot than she had given the newspaper.

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  The first issue of Drumlummon Views showcases fiction by novelists Deirdre McNamer and Matt Pavelich, poetry by Melissa Kwasny, and black-and-white photographs of modern-day Butte by David Spear.

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  The first table of contents includes new work by novelist Deirdre McNamer and photographer David Spear, essays on folklife and literature, film and the visual arts, and reviews of fiction and poetry.

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  Local writer and UM professor Deirdre McNamer, for instance, says, "He was particularly important to me as an aspiring writer.
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  In his obituary, McNamer wrote that Robinson was a writer who "walked conversation[s] into deeper waters: love, literature, what it feels like to know you are old when you don't feel that way."

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  University of Montana Creative Writing Instructor Deirdre McNamer, who is the author of three published novels, Rima in the Weeds, One Sweet Quarrel and My Russian.
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  McNamer has worked as a reporter for the Associated Press and the Missoulian, the daily newspaper in Missoula, Montana.She is currently finishing her fourth novel
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  McNamer and Edelman will read from their publications from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Mon., Apr. 17 at the DMACC Boone Campus.

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