The acclaimed novelist and author of The Shadow Man continues the story of her family as she shares the life story of her mother, Anna Gagliano Gordon--a hard-working single mother whose life was shaped by the physical affliction of polio, as well as the ravages of alcoholism and dementia--their relationship, and her role as a daughter. 25,000 first printing.

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Product Description: "A superb, stunningly written novel." The Philadelphia InquirerRaised 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...read more

In Conversations with Mary Gordon, Mary Gordon reveals her intellectual vigor, her freewheeling humor, and her strongly held opinions on issues ranging from sex to contemporary literature and gender theory. With candor, she details her departure from and eventual return to her Irish-Catholic heritage. Since the resounding success of her first novel, Final Payments (1978), Gordon has been one of America's most popular and controversial writers. She has published five novels, three novellas, two collections of essays, a short story collection, a memoir, a biography of Joan of Arc, and dozens of book reviews. Conversations with Mary Gordon joins the writer in talks with Terry Gross, Charlie Rose, Edmund White, Madison Smartt Bell, Patrick H. Samway, and others. Nine of these interviews have never before been published. Her many interviewers know her as a wonderful, gregarious, passionate, and articulate interviewee. This is surprising, considering that Gordon once insisted during an interview that "interviews are absolutely my idea of hell." The clarity and conviction evident in her writing are matched by the same qualities in her conversation. She explores her favorite novelists--Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Ford Madox Ford--and talks at length about how and why she uses Roman Catholicism as metaphor and symbol in her own writing. Freely discussing the autobiographic influences in her work, she is open about the huge influence of her father. David Gordon, a journalist and scholar, died when Mary was seven. Mary loved him dearly, and she discusses his influence on her life and writing, as well as her profound disillusionment with him when she discovered the self-hatred and ultra-conservatism of his writing. Her utter devotion to him in early interviews gives way to disillusionment, rejection, and, ultimately, acceptance. This collection allows the reader to trace the roots--both literary and autobiographical--of one of America's most fiercely intelligent and thoughtful writers. Alma Bennett is an associate professor of humanities and English at Clemson University.

Product Description: Una madre que teme dejar solo a su hijo, una anciana que recorre las calles de Napoles en busca de un amor de juventud Mary Gordon es capaz de mostrarnos, en detalles cotidianos, el deseo femenino, los estragos -y virtudes- de la educacion catolica y el modo en que las mujeres se ven, se entienden y se enfrentan al mundo...read more

Product Description: Anna Gagliano Gordon, la madre de la gran escritora estadounidense Mary Gordon, murio en 2002 a los 94 años, tras pasar por la experiencia de la inmigracion, la guerra mundial, la Gran Depresion, una enfermedad durante la infancia -la polio- de la que se salvaria pero que dejaria secuelas en su fisico, y, ya en la madurez, episodios de alcoholismo que la conducirian a la amargura...read more

After eleven isolated years caring for her invalid father, a professor who had suffered a stroke upon discovering her in bed with a student, Isabel Moore tries to reenter the world with the help of two very different friends. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: Essays, Literary Studies, Literary Fiction

A provocative biography of this enduring figure searches for reason why this failed soldier and executed heretic has survived in consciousness of Western Civilization. Original. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: In the short novels that make up this beautiful collection, Mary Gordon presents a quartet of finely rendered, emotionally resonant stories. Here we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her last days as a transplant in New York City; a vulnerable American graduate student who escapes to Italy after her first, compromising love affair; the charming Irish liar of the title, who gets more out of life than most; and Thomas Mann, opening the heart of a high schooler in the Midwest...read more

Product Description: Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view...read more

While temporarily separated from her husband, on an academic fellowship in France, Anne Foster must cope with writing a catalogue for an important art exhibition and dealing with the sitter she has hired for her children