Mary Gordon Books
The Company of Women
Five women become close friends through a common devotion to Father Cyprian, whose special vocation is working women. Among the women there is one child, Felicitas, and the book reveals her develop...
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Temporary Shelter: Short Stories
It is possible in realistic fiction to create the witch as hero, but you must place her in another moral context, and you cannot call her a witch. The use of multiple contexts is an option of the w...
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The Shadow Man
By Mary Gordon
In The Shadow Man, the bestselling author of Final Payments and The Company of Women elevates the memoir into an uncompromising and unforgettable art form as she seeks to learn the truth about her...
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Pearl
By Mary Gordon
On Christmas night of 1998, Maria Meyers learns that her twenty-year-old daughter, Pearl, has chained herself outside the American embassy in Dublin, where she intends to starve herself to death. A...
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The Stories of Mary Gordon
By Mary Gordon
The stories of Mary Gordon return us to the pleasure of this writer's craft and to her monumental talent as an observer of character and of the ever-fading American Dream. These pieces encompass th...
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