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Books by Mary Gordon
  | | Circling My Mother(Reprint) by Mary Gordon Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2008 by Anchor Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27761-9, ISBN: 0-307-27761-5 "Anna Gagliano Gordon, who died in 2002 at the age of 94, was the personification of the culture of the mid-century American Catholic working class. A hard-working single mother – Mary Gordon's father died when she was still a girl – she managed to hold down a job, dress smartly, raise her daughter on her own, and worship the beauty in life with a surprising joie de vivre. Bringing her exceptional talent for detail, character, and scene ..." |
 | | Spending(1st Edition) A Novel by Mary Gordon Paperback, 301 Pages, Published 1999 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-684-85204-1, ISBN: 0-684-85204-7 "Gordon dares to be unfashionable and demonstrate that some lucky people can have it all. -- starred, "Publishers Weekly" Monica Szabo is a middle-aged, struggling painter and mother who encounters a wealthy stock broker who soon becomes her lover and takes wonderful care of her. Shortly thereafter, her artwork makes her a media darling and very rich at the precise time that her lover suffers a reversal of fortune. What happens to a rela ..." |
 | | Joan of Arc(Reprint) A Life (Penguin Lives) by Mary Gordon Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2008 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-311397-3, ISBN: 0-14-311397-6 "“ A master of the story form” (The New York Times) offers a fresh, revealing portrait of the legendary saint Celebrated novelist Mary Gordon brings Joan of Arc alive as a complex figure full of contradictions and desires, as well as spiritual devotion. A humble peasant girl, Joan transformed herself into the legendary Maid of Orléans, knight, martyr, and saint. Following the voice of God, she led an army to victory and crowned the ki ..." |
 | | Final Payments(Reprint) by Mary Gordon Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2006 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27678-0, ISBN: 0-307-27678-3 "When Isabel Moore's father dies, she finds herself, at the age of thirty, suddenly freed from eleven years of uninterrupted care for a helpless man. With all the patterns of her life suddenly rendered meaningless, she turns to childhood friends for support, gets a job, and becomes involved with two very different men. But just as her future begins to emerge, her past throws up a daunting challenge. A moving story of self-reinventio ..." |
 | | Pearl(Reprint) by Mary Gordon Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2006 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-7807-3, ISBN: 1-4000-7807-5 "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. Although Maria was once a student radical and still proudly lives by her beliefs, gentle, book-loving Pearl has never been interested in politics–nor in the Catholicism her mother rejected years before. What, then, is driving her to martyr hers ..." |
 | | Reading Jesus(Reprint) A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels by Mary Gordon Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2010 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27762-6, ISBN: 0-307-27762-3 "Reading Jesus is a personal journey through the fundamental Biblical stories. As celebrated author Mary Gordon ponders the intense strangeness of a deity in human form, unresolved moral ambiguities within the text, and the problem posed to her as an enlightened reader by the miracle of the Resurrection. What she rediscovers—and reinterprets with her signature candor, intelligence, and straightforwardness—is a rich store of overlapping, ..." |
 | | The Shadow Man(Reprint) A Daughter's Search for Her Father by Mary Gordon Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1997 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-74931-8, ISBN: 0-679-74931-4 "For a so-called "Catholic novelist," the revelation that her father was born a Jew qualifies as something of a literary bomblet; that his past was a tissue of fabrications, that he became an anti-Semite and reactionary, is a revelation that haunts this unusual book. Gordon's search for her father, who died when she was seven, leads her to libraries and archives, to interviews with his associates, to family birth records and finally to t ..." |
 | | There Your Heart Lies(Reprint) A Novel by Mary Gordon Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2018 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-345-80294-1, ISBN: 0-345-80294-2 "At nineteen, Marian Taylor cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family and left America to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War—an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties and diagnosed with cancer, Marian finally shares what happened to her during those years with her granddaughter Amelia, a young woman of good heart but only a vague notion of life’s purpose. Marian’s secret history—of perso ..." |
 | | The Other Side by Mary Gordon Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 1989 by Viking Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-670-82566-0, ISBN: 0-670-82566-2 "Jack Lafferty, the mill attendant, had been kind to him as well. Vincent had often thought Jack Lafferty must have considered him an odd one. ..." |
 | | The Company of Women A Novel by Mary Gordon Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1986 by Ballantine Books ISBN-13: 978-0-345-48301-0, ISBN: 0-345-48301-4 "Mary Gordon’s fiction explores the nature of love of religion, of family relationships and, in every sense, illuminates and enhances our lives. Raised by five intensely religious women and a charismatic, controversial priest, sheltered from the secular world, Felicitas Maria Taylor is intelligent, charming, and desperate for a taste of ordinary happiness. More freedom than she has ever imagined awaits her at Columbia University in the 1 ..." |
 | | On Thomas Merton by Mary Gordon Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2019 by Shambhala ISBN-13: 978-1-61180-337-2, ISBN: 1-61180-337-3 "From the best-selling novelist and memoirist: a deeply personal view of her discovery of the celebrated modern monk and thinker through his writings.“If Thomas Merton had been a writer and not a monk, we would never have heard of him. If Thomas Merton had been a monk and not a writer, we would never have heard of him.”So begins acclaimed author Mary Gordon in this probing, candid exploration of the man who became the face and voice of m ..." |
 | | There Your Heart Lies(1st Edition) A Novel by Mary Gordon Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2017 by Pantheon Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-90794-3, ISBN: 0-307-90794-5 "From the award-winning novelist Mary Gordon, here is a book whose twentieth-century wisdom can help us understand the difficulties we face in the twenty-first: There Your Heart Lies is a deeply moving novel about an American woman’s experiences during the Spanish Civil War, the lessons she learned, and how her story will shape her granddaughter’s path.Marian cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family when she v ..." |
 | | There Your Heart Lies A Novel by Mary Gordon 336 Pages, Published 2017 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-307-90795-0, ISBN: 0-307-90795-3 "There are only five children making First Communion—she wonders what has happened to the children of the poor, whose parents ... This is all she can think of at the home of Pilar's brother, when course after course is offered in honor of Ignacio and Fernanda. ... Fernanda opens hers first; she presents it to the family, and the women ooh and aah as if it were a real baby, being introduced for the first time." |
 | | The Liar's Wife Four Novellas by Mary Gordon 304 Pages, Published 2014 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-307-90888-9, ISBN: 0-307-90888-7 "This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide." |
 | | The Liar's Wife Four Novellas by Mary Gordon Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2014 by Pantheon Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-37743-2, ISBN: 0-307-37743-1 "The award-winning author at her storytelling best: four compelling novellas of Americans in Europe and Europeans in America. In these absorbing and exquisitely made novellas of relationships at home and abroad, both historical and contemporary, we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her final days as a transplant to New York City; a vulnerable American grad student who escapes to Italy after her first, compromising love affair; the ch ..." |
 | | Men and Angels A Novel by Mary Gordon 239 Pages, Published 2013 by Open Road Media ISBN-13: 978-1-4804-1498-3, ISBN: 1-4804-1498-0 "Much better than the gung-ho breed.” He had agreed to say some prayers for Laura. Jane spoke to Harold Cusher, the undertaker, and arranged for Laura's body to be cremated. “Was there any place that Laura liked particularly? Mr. Cusher wants to know,” Jane asked. She couldn't say. ... Anne had discovered, finding Laura's driver's license. She had lied about her birthday to get a party. Anne was glad she had. She had done something ..." |
 | | The Rest of Life Three Novellas by Mary Gordon 272 Pages, Published 2013 by Open Road Media ISBN-13: 978-1-4804-1499-0, ISBN: 1-4804-1499-9 "I wonder whether Lauro would have been able to take up the life he has—so irregular, unstable, open—if his father had ... He habitually talked quite loudly, according to Lauro's sister Marina, the one Lauro was fond of, for whose wedding we ..." |
 | | The Company of Women A Novel by Mary Gordon 304 Pages, Published 2013 by Open Road Media ISBN-13: 978-1-4804-1502-7, ISBN: 1-4804-1502-2 "Meanwhile, Felicitas was reading Quartet in Heaven, a book about women saints by Sheila Kaye-Smith. She was so tired of reading accounts of the Little Flower's life that she thought she would go mad if she read one more word about picking ..." |
 | | Good Boys and Dead Girls And Other Essays by Mary Gordon 272 Pages, Published 2013 by Open Road Media ISBN-13: 978-1-4804-1475-4, ISBN: 1-4804-1475-1 "Her letters are a treasure, or, as Flannery would have said, a grace. Funny, relentless, deeply touching, they reveal the mind of one of our least personal writers. Sally Fitzgerald's introduction to the letters collected in The Habit of Being is a ..." |
 | | The Love of My Youth(Reprint) by Mary Gordon Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2012 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-307-39032-5, ISBN: 0-307-39032-2 "Miranda and Adam, high school sweethearts now in their late fifties, arrive by chance at the same time in Rome, a city where they once spent a summer deeply in love. At an awkward reunion, Adam suggests that they meet for daily walks and get to know each other again. Both have their own sense of who betrayed whom and long-held interpretations of the events that caused them not to part. But gradually, as they take in the pleasures of the ..." |
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